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title: Most data between continents travels through undersea cables, not sa… — The internet and undersea cables · tree and pragmatics
description: Most data between continents travels through undersea cables, not satellites; inside, thin glass fibres carry pulses of light; there are many such cables, so if a ship's anchor cuts one, data goes round by the others, maybe more slowly, until it is mended. Who acts: thin glass fibres, anchor, data. 
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# The internet and undersea cables, sentence 9

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Most data between continents travels through undersea cables, not satellites; inside, thin glass fibres carry pulses of light; there are many such cables, so if a ship's anchor cuts one, data goes round by the others, maybe more slowly, until it is mended.

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**Who acts:** thin glass fibres, anchor, data · **What happens:** carry, be, cut, go round, mend, pulse · **To what, where:** pulses, many such cables, one, data, light

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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 (thin glass fibres, anchor, data), 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:9
# text = Most data between continents travels through undersea cables, not satellites; inside, thin glass fibres carry pulses of light; there are many such cables, so if a ship's anchor cuts one, data goes round by the others, maybe more slowly, until it is mended.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	data	data	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	continents	continent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound
5	travels	travel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	undersea	undersea	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	cables	cable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	satellites	satellite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	fibres	fibre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	pulses	pulse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:expl
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	cables	cable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	anchor	anchor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	cuts	cut	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	obj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	data	data	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
40	round	round	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	by	by	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:advmod
46	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	47	advmod	_	_
47	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
51	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux:pass	_	_
52	mended	mend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	advcl	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | thin glass fibres | pulses of light |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pulse=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | many such cables |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cut** | present | a ship's anchor | one |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material one=Product |
| 4 | **go round** | present | data |  |  |  |  | by the others; round, slowly *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by other=Location |
| 5 | **mend** | present · passive |  | data |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **pulse** |  |  | light |  |  |  |  | nom pulse «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×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.

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