Satellites and GPS, sentence 1

It was thrown sideways so fast by a rocket that as it falls, the round Earth curves away beneath it, so it keeps falling around the Earth and never hits the ground, like a ball thrown so hard it would go right round the world.

Who acts: satellite, round Earth · What happens: throw, fall, curve away, keep, not hit, go · To what, where: satellite, rocket, Earth, ground, ball, world

This is a sentence of the lesson «Satellites and GPS» of the technology 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 (satellite, round Earth), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thrown	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thrown	aux:pass
3	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	sideways	sideway	ADV	_	3 thrown	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 thrown	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 rocket	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rocket	det
9	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thrown	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 falls	obj
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 falls	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 falls	nsubj
13	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rocket	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 curves	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Earth	det
16	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Earth	amod
17	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 curves	nsubj
18	curves	curve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 falls	conj
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 curves	advmod
20	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 curves	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 keeps	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 keeps	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 keeps	nsubj
25	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thrown	conj
26	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 keeps	xcomp
27	around	around	ADP	_	29 Earth	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Earth	det
29	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 falling	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hits	cc
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 hits	advmod
32	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 keeps	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ground	det
34	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hits	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ball	punct
36	like	like	ADP	_	38 ball	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 ball	det
38	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hits	obl
39	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 ball	acl
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 hard	advmod
41	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 thrown	advmod
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 go	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 go	aux
44	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 thrown	ccomp
45	right	right	ADV	_	48 world	advmod
46	round	round	ADP	_	48 world	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 world	det
48	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 go	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thrown	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past · passive		satellite		by a rocket; fast, sideway property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme by rocket=Destination
2	fall	present	satellite	a rocket			vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient that=Result
3	curve away	present	the round Earth			beneath satellite; away property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent
4	keep	present	satellite				tree rules
5	fall	gerund	satellite not said here		the Earth		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around earth=Location
6	not hit	present	satellite not said here	the ground		like a ball	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme
7	throw	participle		a ball not said here		hard property	tree rules
8	go	would	satellite		the world		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round world=Initial_Location

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:technology:038-satellites-and-gps.lesson:1.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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