What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond, sentence 16

Thousands of old satellites and pieces of rocket orbit Earth as space junk, and even a paint fleck at orbital speed can damage a spacecraft.

Who acts: Thousands · What happens: orbit, damage · To what, where: Earth, spacecraft

This is a sentence of the lesson «What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond» of the space 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 (Thousands), 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	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 orbit	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 satellites	case
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 satellites	amod
4	satellites	satellite	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Thousands	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pieces	cc
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 satellites	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 Earth	case
8	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pieces	nmod
9	orbit	orbit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 orbit	obj
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 junk	case
12	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 junk	compound
13	junk	junk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 orbit	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fleck	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fleck	cc
16	even	even	ADV	_	19 fleck	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fleck	det
18	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fleck	compound
19	fleck	fleck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 satellites	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 speed	case
21	orbital	orbital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 speed	amod
22	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fleck	nmod
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 damage	aux
24	damage	damage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 orbit	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 spacecraft	det
26	spacecraft	spacecraft	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 damage	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 damage	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	orbit	present	Thousands of old satellites and pieces rocket and a paint fleck at orbital speed	Earth				as space junk	tree rules
2	damage	can	Thousands of old satellites and pieces rocket and a paint fleck at orbital speed not said here	a spacecraft					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spacecraft=Patient

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:space:030-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond.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): R5-strong ×6, R7-rel-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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