Satellites and GPS, sentence 7

Space is getting crowded, too: old satellites and broken pieces race round the Earth as space junk, and even a fleck of paint at that speed can damage a spacecraft.

Who acts: Space, old satellites, fleck · What happens: get, break, race, damage · To what, where: Earth, spacecraft

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 (Space, old satellites, fleck), 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	Space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 getting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 getting	aux
3	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 getting	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 too	punct
6	too	too	ADV	_	3 getting	advmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 satellites	punct
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 satellites	amod
9	satellites	satellite	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 race	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pieces	cc
11	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 pieces	amod
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 satellites	conj
13	race	race	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 getting	parataxis
14	round	round	ADP	_	16 Earth	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Earth	det
16	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 race	obl
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 junk	case
18	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 junk	compound
19	junk	junk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 race	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 damage	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 damage	cc
22	even	even	ADV	_	24 fleck	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fleck	det
24	fleck	fleck	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 damage	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 paint	case
26	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fleck	nmod
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 speed	case
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 speed	det
29	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fleck	nmod
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 damage	aux
31	damage	damage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 race	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 spacecraft	det
33	spacecraft	spacecraft	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 damage	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 getting	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	present · progressive	Space			crowded property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	race	present	old satellites and broken pieces		the Earth	as space junk	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round earth=Trajectory
4	damage	can	a fleck of paint at that speed	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:technology:038-satellites-and-gps.lesson:7.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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