Satellites and GPS, sentence 12

A satellite TV dish collects weak signals from a satellite far above the equator and focuses them onto a receiver, so in the UK all the dishes on a street face south-east, the same way.

Who acts: TV dish, dishes · What happens: collect, focus, face · To what, where: weak signals, satellite, signals, receiver, UK

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 (TV dish, dishes), 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	4 dish	det
2	satellite	satellite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 TV	compound
3	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dish	compound
4	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 collects	nsubj
5	collects	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 signals	amod
7	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 collects	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 satellite	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 satellite	det
10	satellite	satellite	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 collects	obl
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 equator	advmod
12	above	above	ADP	_	14 equator	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 equator	det
14	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 satellite	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 focuses	cc
16	focuses	focus	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 collects	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 focuses	obj
18	onto	onto	ADP	_	20 receiver	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 receiver	det
20	receiver	receiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 focuses	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 UK	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	25 UK	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 UK	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 UK	det
25	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 face	obl
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 dishes	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dishes	det
28	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 face	nsubj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 street	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 street	det
31	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dishes	nmod
32	face	face	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 collects	conj
33	south	south	ADV	_	35 east	advmod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 south	punct
35	east	east	ADV	_	32 face	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 way	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 way	det
38	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 way	amod
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 east	appos
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 collects	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	collect	present	a TV dish	weak signals	a satellite above the equator		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent signal=Theme from satellite=Source
2	focus	present	a TV dish not said here	signals = signal	a receiver		tree rules
3	face	present	all dishes on a street		the UK	east property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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:technology:038-satellites-and-gps.lesson:12.

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 ×1, 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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