--- title: Today phones, radio, television and the internet all work by the sam… — Communication: letters, phones, radio and the in… · tree and pragmatics description: Today phones, radio, television and the internet all work by the same big idea: turn a message into a signal, send the signal very fast, and turn it back into a message at the other end. Who acts: Today phones. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Today phones), 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:9 # text = Today phones, radio, television and the internet all work by the same big idea: turn a message into a signal, send the signal very fast, and turn it back into a message at the other end. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 radio radio NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 television television NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 internet internet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 10 all all ADV RB PronType=Tot 11 advmod _ _ 11 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nmod 17 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 turn turn VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 signal signal NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 send send VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 signal signal NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 very very ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=25:conj 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 back back ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 35 into into ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | Today phones and radio and television and the internet | | | | | by the same big idea; all *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **turn** | infinitive | | a message | | a signal | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent message=Theme into signal=Trajectory | | 3 | **send** | infinitive | | the signal | | | | fast *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme | | 4 | **turn back** | infinitive | | message | | a message at the other end | | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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. **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:9`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Communication: letters, phones, radio…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/100-communication-letters-to-internet/8/) - next →: [Communication: letters, phones, radio…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/100-communication-letters-to-internet/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/100-communication-letters-to-internet/)