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title: Radio telescopes are giant dishes that collect radio waves from spac… — Telescopes and light · tree and pragmatics
description: Radio telescopes are giant dishes that collect radio waves from space, like the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, 76 metres wide. Who acts: Radio telescopes, giant dishes. A sentence of the lesson «Telescopes and light» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Telescopes and light, sentence 13

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Radio telescopes are giant dishes that collect radio waves from space, like the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, 76 metres wide.

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**Who acts:** Radio telescopes, giant dishes · **What happens:** be, collect · **To what, where:** giant dishes, radio waves, space

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Telescopes and light» of the space 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 (Radio telescopes, giant dishes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:027-telescopes-and-light.lesson:13
# text = Radio telescopes are giant dishes that collect radio waves from space, like the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, 76 metres wide.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 027-telescopes-and-light.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 ×2
1	Radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	telescopes	telescope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	collect	collect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Lovell	Lovell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Telescope	Telescope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Jodrell	Jodrell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Bank	Bank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Cheshire	Cheshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	76	76	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod:unmarked	_	_
25	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | Radio telescopes | giant dishes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **collect** | present | giant dishes | radio waves and the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire  76 metres |  | space |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wave=Theme from space=Source |

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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:space:027-telescopes-and-light.lesson:13`.

**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 ×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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