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title: When you stream a film it is sent in small pieces as you watch, with… — The internet and undersea cables · tree and pragmatics
description: When you stream a film it is sent in small pieces as you watch, with a little stored ahead, and the quality changes with the speed of your connection; when the stored part runs out, it buffers. Who acts: you, quality, stored part, part. A sentence of the lesson «The internet and undersea cables» of 
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# The internet and undersea cables, sentence 14

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When you stream a film it is sent in small pieces as you watch, with a little stored ahead, and the quality changes with the speed of your connection; when the stored part runs out, it buffers.

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**Who acts:** you, quality, stored part, part · **What happens:** stream, send, watch, store, change, run out · **To what, where:** film, small pieces, little

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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, quality, stored part, part), 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:14
# text = When you stream a film it is sent in small pieces as you watch, with a little stored ahead, and the quality changes with the speed of your connection; when the stored part runs out, it buffers.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stream	stream	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
20	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det
24	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:amod
25	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	amod	_	_
36	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	buffers	buffer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stream** | present | you | a film |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location film=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | present · passive |  | film |  | small pieces |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in piece=Destination |
| 3 | **watch** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **store** | participle | you *not said here* | a little |  |  |  | ahead *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **change** | present | the quality |  |  |  |  | with the speed of your connection | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **store** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **run out** | present | the stored part |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **buffer** | present | part |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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, 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.

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