Maps and scale, sentence 16

A satnav or phone finds its position by timing radio signals from at least four satellites in orbit.

Who acts: satnav · What happens: find, time · To what, where: position, radio signals, four satellites

This is a sentence of the lesson «Maps and scale» of the geography 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 (satnav), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 satnav	det
2	satnav	satnav	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finds	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 phone	cc
4	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 satnav	conj
5	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 position	nmod:poss
7	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finds	obj
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 timing	mark
9	timing	time	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 finds	advcl
10	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 signals	compound
11	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 timing	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	16 satellites	case
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 least	case
14	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 four	nmod
15	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 satellites	nummod
16	satellites	satellite	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 signals	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 orbit	case
18	orbit	orbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 satellites	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 finds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	a satnav or phone	phone's position					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Topic
2	time	gerund	a satnav or phone not said here	radio signals		four satellites in orbit			vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=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, 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:geography:001-maps-and-scale.lesson:16.

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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