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title: Phones get the time from the phone network or from GPS satellites, w… — Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic cl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Phones get the time from the phone network or from GPS satellites, which carry atomic clocks. Who acts: Phones, GPS satellites. A sentence of the lesson «Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones, sentence 23

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Phones get the time from the phone network or from GPS satellites, which carry atomic clocks.

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**Who acts:** Phones, GPS satellites · **What happens:** get, carry · **To what, where:** phone network, atomic clocks

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones» 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 (Phones, GPS satellites), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks.lesson:23
# text = Phones get the time from the phone network or from GPS satellites, which carry atomic clocks.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	GPS	GPS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	satellites	satellite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	atomic	atomic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	clocks	clock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **get** | present | Phones |  |  | the phone network or GPS satellites | time |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from network=Destination |
| 2 | **carry** | present | GPS satellites | atomic clocks |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Theme |

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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:123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks.lesson:23`.

**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): 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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