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title: Wi-Fi and mobile phones send information through the air as radio wa… — Inventions, computers and the internet · tree and pragmatics
description: Wi-Fi and mobile phones send information through the air as radio waves. Who acts: Wi Fi. 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.
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# Inventions, computers and the internet, sentence 22

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Wi-Fi and mobile phones send information through the air as radio waves.

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**Who acts:** Wi Fi · **What happens:** send · **To what, where:** information, air

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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 (Wi Fi), 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:22
# text = Wi-Fi and mobile phones send information through the air as 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Wi	Wi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
3	Fi	fi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	mobile	mobile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **send** | present | Wi Fi and mobile phones | information |  | the air |  | as radio waves | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent information=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:059-inventions-computers-internet.lesson:22`.

**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): R6-punct-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.

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