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title: In 1901 Guglielmo Marconi sent a radio signal across the Atlantic Oc… — Communication: letters, phones, radio and the in… · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1901 Guglielmo Marconi sent a radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean. Who acts: Guglielmo. A sentence of the lesson «Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet, sentence 20

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In 1901 Guglielmo Marconi sent a radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean.

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**Who acts:** Guglielmo · **What happens:** send · **To what, where:** radio signal, 1901

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet» of the world 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 (Guglielmo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:100-communication-letters-to-internet.lesson:20
# text = In 1901 Guglielmo Marconi sent a radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 100-communication-letters-to-internet.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1901	1901	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	Guglielmo	Guglielmo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Marconi	Marconi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	across	across	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | past | Guglielmo | a radio signal |  | 1901 |  | across the Atlantic Ocean | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent signal=Theme in 1901=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:world:100-communication-letters-to-internet.lesson:20`.

**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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