--- title: A router is a machine that passes packets on towards their address;… — Inventions, computers and the internet · tree and pragmatics description: A router is a machine that passes packets on towards their address; if one path is broken, routers send the packets another way. Who acts: router, machine, routers, packets. A sentence of the lesson «Inventions, computers and the internet» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its depend --- [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/21/) [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/) / 21 # Inventions, computers and the internet, sentence 21 A router is a machine that passes packets on towards their address; if one path is broken, routers send the packets another way. **Who acts:** router, machine, routers, packets · **What happens:** be, pass, break, send, address · **To what, where:** machine, packets, address, one path 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 (router, machine, routers, 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:21 # text = A router is a machine that passes packets on towards their address; if one path is broken, routers send the packets another way. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 router router NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 packets packet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 towards towards ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 address address NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 advcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 routers router NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 send send VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 packets packet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 25 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a router | a machine | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | present | a machine | packets | | packets's address | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent packet=Theme on address=Destination | | 3 | **break** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | one path | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **send** | present | routers | the packets | | | | another way *obl* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent packet=Theme | | 5 | **address** | | packets *= packet* | | | | | | nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:21`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/59-inventions-computers-internet/20/) - next →: [Inventions, computers and the internet, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/59-inventions-computers-internet/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/59-inventions-computers-internet/)