--- title: In the 1990s home internet used the phone line through a dial-up mod… — "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990 · tree and pragmatics description: In the 1990s home internet used the phone line through a dial-up modem, which could take about 30 seconds to connect with beeps and screeches and was far too slow for watching films. Who acts: home internet, up modem. 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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 (home internet, up modem), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:126-in-the-olden-days.lesson:12 # text = In the 1990s home internet used the phone line through a dial-up modem, which could take about 30 seconds to connect with beeps and screeches and was far too slow for watching films. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 126-in-the-olden-days.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 ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 1990s 1990s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 4 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 internet internet NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 through through ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 12 dial dial NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 modem modem NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis 20 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 connect connect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 beeps beep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 screeches screech NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ _ 32 too too ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 34 for for SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 35 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:obl 36 films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | past | home internet | the phone line | | the 1990s | | through a up modem | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient | | 2 | **take** | could | a up modem | | | | second | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **connect** | to-infinitive | a up modem *not said here* | | | | | with beeps and screeches | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with beep=Co-Patient | | 4 | **is** | past | home internet *not said here* | | | | | far, slow *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **watch** | gerund | home internet *not said here* | films | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=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:126-in-the-olden-days.lesson:12`. **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 ×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: ["In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/126-in-the-olden-days/11/) - next →: ["In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/126-in-the-olden-days/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/126-in-the-olden-days/)