--- title: A walkie-talkie sends your voice by radio straight to another walkie… — Phones and how a call travels · tree and pragmatics description: A walkie-talkie sends your voice by radio straight to another walkie-talkie with no masts, and only one person can talk at a time, so people say over when they finish. Who acts: walkie talkie, one person, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walkie talkie, one person, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:035-phones-and-how-a-call-travels.lesson:19 # text = A walkie-talkie sends your voice by radio straight to another walkie-talkie with no masts, and only one person can talk at a time, so people say over when they finish. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 035-phones-and-how-a-call-travels.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 walkie walkie NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 talkie talkie NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sends send VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 radio radio NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 straight straight ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 15 det _ _ 13 walkie walkie NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 talkie talkie NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 masts mast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 33 over over ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 34 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 finish finish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:ccomp 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | present | a walkie talkie | your voice | | another walkie talkie with no masts | | by radio | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent voice=Theme to talkie=Destination | | 2 | **talk** | can | one person | | | | time | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **finish** | present | people | | | | | over *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:technology:035-phones-and-how-a-call-travels.lesson:19`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Phones and how a call travels, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/18/) - next →: [Phones and how a call travels, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/)