The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them, sentence 15

Satellites that tell your phone where you are fall round the Earth like little moons, high above the air, with no engine needed; if one slows down too much, it drops into the air and burns up.

Who acts: Satellites, you, one, phone · What happens: tell, be, fall, need, slow down, drop · To what, where: phone, Earth, engine, air · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them» of the physics 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 (Satellites, you, one, phone), 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	Satellites	satellite	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fall	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Satellites	acl:relcl
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 phone	nmod:poss
5	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 are	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 are	nsubj
8	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	advcl
9	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	round	round	ADP	_	12 Earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Earth	det
12	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 fall	obl
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 moons	case
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 moons	amod
15	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Earth	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 high	punct
17	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Earth	conj
18	above	above	ADP	_	20 air	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 air	det
20	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 high	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 engine	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 engine	case
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 engine	det
24	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fall	obl
25	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 engine	acl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 fall	punct
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 slows	mark
28	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 slows	nsubj
29	slows	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 drops	advcl
30	down	down	ADP	_	29 slows	compound:prt
31	too	too	ADV	_	32 much	advmod
32	much	much	ADV	_	29 slows	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 drops	punct
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 drops	nsubj
35	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fall	parataxis
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 air	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 air	det
38	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 drops	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 burns	cc
40	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 drops	conj
41	up	up	ADP	_	40 burns	compound:prt
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fall	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Satellites	your phone			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent phone=Recipient
2	does	present	you				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall	present	Satellites		the Earth like little moons	with no engine	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round earth=Initial_Location
4	need	participle		no engine not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	slow down a condition, not said to happen	present	one				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	drop	present	phone		the air		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into air=Trajectory
7	burn up	present	phone not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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:physics:002-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull.lesson:15.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.

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