--- title: In a mobile call, your phone turns your voice into numbers and sends… — Phones and how a call travels · tree and pragmatics description: In a mobile call, your phone turns your voice into numbers and sends them by radio to the nearest mast, and cables and other masts carry them to the other phone in a fraction of a second. Who acts: phone, cables. 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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 (phone, cables), 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:8 # text = In a mobile call, your phone turns your voice into numbers and sends them by radio to the nearest mast, and cables and other masts carry them to the other phone in a fraction of a second. # 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 ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 mobile mobile ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 sends send VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 radio radio NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 amod _ _ 21 mast mast NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 cables cable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 masts mast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 28 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 fraction fraction NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nmod 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 36 nmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | your phone | your voice | | | | into numbers; in a mobile call | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent voice=Patient in call=Topic into number=Recipient | | 2 | **send** | present | your phone *not said here* | numbers *= number* | | the nearest mast | | by radio | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to mast=Destination | | 3 | **carry** | present | cables and other masts | numbers *= number* | | a fraction of a second | | to the other phone | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to phone=Destination | 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:8`. **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 ×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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/7/) - next →: [Phones and how a call travels, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/)