--- title: Packets travel through metal cables, glass fibres and radio waves. — Inventions, computers and the internet · tree and pragmatics description: Packets travel through metal cables, glass fibres and radio waves. Who acts: Packets. A sentence of the lesson «Inventions, computers and the internet» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/59-inventions-computers-internet/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Inventions, computers and the internet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/59-inventions-computers-internet/) / 19 # Inventions, computers and the internet, sentence 19 Packets travel through metal cables, glass fibres and radio waves. **Who acts:** Packets · **What happens:** travel · **To what, where:** metal cables This is a sentence of the lesson «Inventions, computers 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 (Packets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:059-inventions-computers-internet.lesson:19 # text = Packets travel through metal cables, glass fibres and radio waves. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 059-inventions-computers-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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Packets packet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound 2 travel travel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 through through ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 cables cable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:nmod 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 7 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 fibres fibre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 radio radio NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 12 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **travel** | present | Packets | | | metal cables and glass fibres and radio waves | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through cable=Trajectory | 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:059-inventions-computers-internet.lesson:19`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [Inventions, computers and the internet, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/59-inventions-computers-internet/18/) - next →: [Inventions, computers and the internet, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/59-inventions-computers-internet/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/59-inventions-computers-internet/)