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title: To circle the Earth, a rocket must move at about 28,000 kilometres a… — Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere · tree and pragmatics
description: To circle the Earth, a rocket must move at about 28,000 kilometres an hour sideways; at that speed it falls round the Earth instead of back down. Who acts: rocket. A sentence of the lesson «Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere, sentence 7

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To circle the Earth, a rocket must move at about 28,000 kilometres an hour sideways; at that speed it falls round the Earth instead of back down.

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**Who acts:** rocket · **What happens:** circle, move, fall · **To what, where:** Earth, 28,000 kilometres, speed

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere» 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 (rocket), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:038-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere.lesson:7
# text = To circle the Earth, a rocket must move at about 28,000 kilometres an hour sideways; at that speed it falls round the Earth instead of back down.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 038-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	circle	circle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rocket	rocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	28,000	28,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
15	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl
23	round	round	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	29	advmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **circle** | to-infinitive | a rocket *not said here* | the Earth |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **move** | must | a rocket |  |  | 28,000 kilometres  a hour |  | sideways *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at kilometre=Trajectory |
| 3 | **fall** | present | rocket |  |  | that speed |  | round the Earth | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at speed=Location |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:physics:038-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere.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): 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.

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

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