--- title: From the mast, the numbers race through cables, across countries and… — Phones and how a call travels · tree and pragmatics description: From the mast, the numbers race through cables, across countries and even under oceans, to the mast nearest Grandma, then by radio to her phone, where a tiny speaker cone shakes and turns them back into your voice. Who acts: numbers, tiny speaker cone. 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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 (numbers, tiny speaker cone), 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:2 # text = From the mast, the numbers race through cables, across countries and even under oceans, to the mast nearest Grandma, then by radio to her phone, where a tiny speaker cone shakes and turns them back into your voice. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 From from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 mast mast NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 6 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound 7 race race VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 through through ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 cables cable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 across across ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 even even ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 under under ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 oceans ocean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 mast mast NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 21 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 amod _ _ 22 Grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 radio radio NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 36 advmod _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:det 33 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:amod 34 speaker speaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:compound 35 cone cone NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:compound 36 shakes shake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 back back ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 41 into into ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **race** | present | the numbers | | | the mast | | through cables and countries and oceans; by radio to microphone's phone | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mast=Trajectory | | 2 | **shake** | present | a tiny speaker cone | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **turn** | present | a tiny speaker cone *not said here* | numbers *= number* | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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:2`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/1/) - next →: [Phones and how a call travels, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/)