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title: Satellites that tell your phone where you are fall round the Earth l… — The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them · tree and pragmatics
description: Satellites that tell your phone where you are fall round the Earth like little moons, high above the air, with no engine needed; if one slows down too much, it drops into the air and burns up. Who acts: Satellites, you, one, phone. A sentence of the lesson «The Moon, the planets and the pull that ho
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# The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them, sentence 15

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Satellites that tell your phone where you are fall round the Earth like little moons, high above the air, with no engine needed; if one slows down too much, it drops into the air and burns up.

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**Who acts:** Satellites, you, one, phone · **What happens:** tell, be, fall, need, slow down, drop · **To what, where:** phone, Earth, engine, air · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them» of the physics 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 (Satellites, you, one, phone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:002-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull.lesson:15
# text = Satellites that tell your phone where you are fall round the Earth like little moons, high above the air, with no engine needed; if one slows down too much, it drops into the air and burns up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 002-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Satellites	satellite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	round	round	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
18	above	above	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	engine	engine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
25	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj|HaikuPos=NUM:CD:NumForm=Word|NumType=Card
29	slows	slow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
30	down	down	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
31	too	too	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	much	much	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Satellites | your phone |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent phone=Recipient |
| 2 | **does** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | present | Satellites |  |  | the Earth like little moons |  | with no engine | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round earth=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **need** | participle |  | no engine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **slow down** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **drop** | present | phone |  |  | the air |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into air=Trajectory |
| 7 | **burn up** | present | phone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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