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title: An email is sent to your email provider's server and passed to the o… — The internet and undersea cables · tree and pragmatics
description: An email is sent to your email provider's server and passed to the other person's server; the @ sign was chosen for email in 1971. A sentence of the lesson «The internet and undersea cables» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The internet and undersea cables, sentence 15

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An email is sent to your email provider's server and passed to the other person's server; the @ sign was chosen for email in 1971.

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**What happens:** send, pass, choose · **To what, where:** email, server, @ sign, 1971

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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: 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:15
# text = An email is sent to your email provider's server and passed to the other person's server; the @ sign was chosen for email in 1971.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	email	email	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	email	email	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	provider	provider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	server	server	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	server	server	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	@	@	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	email	email	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	1971	1971	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **send** | present · passive |  | a email |  | your email provider's server |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to server=Destination |
| 2 | **pass** | participle |  |  |  | the other person's server |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to server=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **choose** | past · passive |  | the @ sign |  | 1971 |  | for email | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for email=Beneficiary |

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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:15`.

**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): R8-pos-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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