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title: It goes through cables lying on the sea floor, with glass threads as… — The internet and undersea cables · tree and pragmatics
description: It goes through cables lying on the sea floor, with glass threads as thin as a hair inside, carrying flashes of light from one continent to another. Who acts: most, cables, light. A sentence of the lesson «The internet and undersea cables» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# The internet and undersea cables, sentence 3

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It goes through cables lying on the sea floor, with glass threads as thin as a hair inside, carrying flashes of light from one continent to another.

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**Who acts:** most, cables, light · **What happens:** go, lie, carry, flash · **To what, where:** cables, sea floor, flashes, one continent

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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 (most, cables, light), 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:3
# text = It goes through cables lying on the sea floor, with glass threads as thin as a hair inside, carrying flashes of light from one continent to another.
# 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): no change
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	cables	cable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
22	flashes	flash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **go** | present | most |  |  | cables |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through cable=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund | cables *not said here* |  |  | the sea floor |  | with glass threads | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | cables *not said here* | flashes of light |  | one continent to another |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent flash=Theme from continent=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **flash** |  | light |  |  |  |  |  | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:3`.

**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): no change. **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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