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title: The packets travel through cables, through glass fibres as flashes o… — Inventions, computers and the internet · tree and pragmatics
description: The packets travel through cables, through glass fibres as flashes of light, and through the air as radio waves, passing from one router to the next. Who acts: packets, light. A sentence of the lesson «Inventions, computers and the internet» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Inventions, computers and the internet, sentence 8

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The packets travel through cables, through glass fibres as flashes of light, and through the air as radio waves, passing from one router to the next.

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**Who acts:** packets, light · **What happens:** travel, pass, flash · **To what, where:** cables, one router

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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 (packets, light), 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:8
# text = The packets travel through cables, through glass fibres as flashes of light, and through the air as radio waves, passing from one router to the next.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	packets	packet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	travel	travel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	cables	cable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	fibres	fibre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	flashes	flash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	router	router	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | present | the packets |  |  | cables and glass fibres and the air as radio waves |  | as flashes of light | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through cable=Trajectory |
| 2 | **pass** | gerund | the packets *not said here* |  |  | one router |  | to the next | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from router=Initial\_Location to next=Destination |
| 3 | **flash** |  | light |  |  |  |  |  | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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**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): no change. **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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