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title: A message became pulses of electric current in a wire, written in Mo… — Communication: letters, phones, radio and the in… · tree and pragmatics
description: A message became pulses of electric current in a wire, written in Morse code as short and long signals — dots and dashes. Who acts: message. 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
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# Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet, sentence 5

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A message became pulses of electric current in a wire, written in Morse code as short and long signals — dots and dashes.

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**Who acts:** message · **What happens:** become, write, pulse · **To what, where:** pulses, Morse code, electric current, wire

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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 (message), 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:5
# text = A message became pulses of electric current in a wire, written in Morse code as short and long signals — dots and dashes.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	pulses	pulse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	xcomp	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wire	wire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Morse	morse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	code	code	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	signals	signal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
22	dots	dot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:appos
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	dashes	dash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	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 | **become** | past | a message | pulses of electric current in a wire |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  | pulses of electric current in a wire *not said here* |  | Morse code |  | as short signals | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in code=Destination |
| 3 | **pulse** |  |  | electric current |  | a wire |  |  | nom pulse «event transitive»: of=patient in=place |

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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:5`.

**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 ×2, 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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