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title: A broadcast, such as radio or television, sends the same message fro… — Communication: letters, phones, radio and the in… · tree and pragmatics
description: A broadcast, such as radio or television, sends the same message from one sender to many people at once. Who acts: broadcast. 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 
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# Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet, sentence 21

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A broadcast, such as radio or television, sends the same message from one sender to many people at once.

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**Who acts:** broadcast · **What happens:** send · **To what, where:** same message, many people, one sender

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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 (broadcast), 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:21
# text = A broadcast, such as radio or television, sends the same message from one sender to many people at once.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	broadcast	broadcast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	television	television	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	sender	sender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	once	once	ADV	RB	_	10	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | a broadcast such radio or television | the same message | many people | one sender |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to people=Destination from sender=Initial\_Location |

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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:21`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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