Satellites and GPS, sentence 8

A satellite is a machine launched into orbit, falling around the Earth fast enough that it never hits the ground; there are thousands of working satellites around Earth.

Who acts: satellite, thousands · What happens: be, launch, fall, not hit, work · To what, where: machine, orbit, Earth, 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 (satellite, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 satellite	det
2	satellite	satellite	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 machine	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 machine	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 machine	det
5	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	launched	launch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 machine	acl
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 orbit	case
8	orbit	orbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 launched	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 falling	punct
10	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 launched	advcl
11	around	around	ADP	_	13 Earth	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Earth	det
13	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 falling	obl
14	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 enough	advmod
15	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 falling	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 hits	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hits	nsubj
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 hits	advmod
19	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 enough	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ground	det
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hits	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 are	punct
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 are	expl
24	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 machine	parataxis
25	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 are	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 satellites	case
27	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 satellites	amod
28	satellites	satellite	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 thousands	nmod
29	around	around	ADP	_	30 Earth	case
30	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 satellites	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 machine	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a satellite	a machine			tree rules
2	launch	participle		a machine not said here		into orbit result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into orbit=Result
3	fall	gerund			the Earth		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around earth=Location
4	not hit	present	satellite	the ground			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme
5	does	present	thousands of working satellites around Earth		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	work	gerund					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:8.

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, 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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