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description: When you open a web page, it is chopped into small packets, like a big jigsaw posted in many envelopes, and each packet hops through machines called routers, maybe along different roads, until they are put back together on your screen. Who acts: you, packet, machines. A sentence of the lesson «The i
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# The internet and undersea cables, sentence 1

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When you open a web page, it is chopped into small packets, like a big jigsaw posted in many envelopes, and each packet hops through machines called routers, maybe along different roads, until they are put back together on your screen.

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**Who acts:** you, packet, machines · **What happens:** open, chop, post, hop, call, put back · **To what, where:** web page, page, small packets, big jigsaw, many envelopes, machines · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The internet and undersea cables» of the technology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, packet, machines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:037-the-internet-and-undersea-cables.lesson:1
# text = When you open a web page, it is chopped into small packets, like a big jigsaw posted in many envelopes, and each packet hops through machines called routers, maybe along different roads, until they are put back together on your screen.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 037-the-internet-and-undersea-cables.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	open	open	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	chopped	chop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	packets	packet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	jigsaw	jigsaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	posted	post	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	envelopes	envelope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	packet	packet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	hops	hop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
28	through	through	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
30	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:amod
31	routers	router	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	xcomp	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	along	along	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
42	back	back	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	together	together	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | present | you | a web page |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location page=Theme |
| 2 | **chop** | present · passive |  | page |  |  |  | into small packets and a big jigsaw *result* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into packet=Result |
| 3 | **post** | participle |  | a big jigsaw *not said here* |  | many envelopes |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hop** | present | each packet |  |  | machines |  | along different roads | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through machine=Trajectory |
| 5 | **call** | participle | machines *not said here* | routers |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **put back** | present · passive |  | packets *= packet* |  | your screen |  | together *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on screen=Destination |

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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.

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**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:037-the-internet-and-undersea-cables.lesson:1`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×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/).

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