Satellites and GPS, sentence 16

The International Space Station is a big laboratory orbiting Earth with astronauts on board, and it goes around the Earth about every 90 minutes; the astronauts float because they and the station are falling around the Earth together, though gravity is still there; you can sometimes see it from the ground as a bright moving dot.

Who acts: International Space Station, big laboratory, Station, astronauts, gravity, you · What happens: be, orbit, go, float, fall, see · To what, where: big laboratory, Earth, gravity, ground

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 (International Space Station, big laboratory, Station, astronauts), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Station	det
2	International	International	PROPN	_	4 Station	compound
3	Space	Space	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Station	compound
4	Station	Station	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 laboratory	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 laboratory	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 laboratory	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 laboratory	amod
8	laboratory	laboratory	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	orbiting	orbit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 laboratory	acl
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 orbiting	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 astronauts	case
12	astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Earth	nmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 board	case
14	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 astronauts	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 goes	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 goes	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 goes	nsubj
18	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 laboratory	conj
19	around	around	ADP	_	21 Earth	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Earth	det
21	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 goes	obl
22	about	about	ADV	_	25 minutes	advmod
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 minutes	det
24	90	90	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 minutes	nummod
25	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 goes	obl:unmarked
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 float	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 astronauts	det
28	astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 float	nsubj
29	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 laboratory	parataxis
30	because	because	SCONJ	_	36 falling	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 falling	nsubj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 station	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 station	det
34	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 they	conj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 falling	aux
36	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 float	advcl
37	around	around	ADP	_	39 Earth	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Earth	det
39	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 falling	obl
40	together	together	ADV	_	36 falling	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 there	punct
42	though	though	SCONJ	_	46 there	mark
43	gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 there	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 there	cop
45	still	still	ADV	_	46 there	advmod
46	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 falling	advcl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 see	punct
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 see	nsubj
49	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 see	aux
50	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	51 see	advmod
51	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 laboratory	parataxis
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 see	obj
53	from	from	ADP	_	55 ground	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 ground	det
55	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 see	obl
56	as	as	ADP	_	60 dot	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 dot	det
58	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 dot	amod
59	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	60 dot	amod
60	dot	dot	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 see	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 laboratory	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the International Space Station	a big laboratory				tree rules
2	orbit	gerund	a big laboratory not said here	Earth			with astronauts on board	tree rules
3	go	present	Station		the Earth	minute		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around earth=Initial_Location
4	float	present	the astronauts					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall	present · progressive	astronauts = astronaut		the Earth		together property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around earth=Location
6	is	present	gravity			still	there property	tree rules
7	see	can	you	gravity	the ground		as a bright moving dot; sometimes property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus as dot=Attribute
8	move	gerund						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:technology:038-satellites-and-gps.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): 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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