--- title: Thousands of old satellites and pieces of rocket orbit Earth as spac… — What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond · tree and pragmatics description: Thousands of old satellites and pieces of rocket orbit Earth as space junk, and even a paint fleck at orbital speed can damage a spacecraft. Who acts: Thousands. A sentence of the lesson «What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/) / [What comes next: the Moon, Mars and be…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/) / 16 # What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond, sentence 16 Thousands of old satellites and pieces of rocket orbit Earth as space junk, and even a paint fleck at orbital speed can damage a spacecraft. **Who acts:** Thousands · **What happens:** orbit, damage · **To what, where:** Earth, spacecraft This is a sentence of the lesson «What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond» 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 (Thousands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:030-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond.lesson:16 # text = Thousands of old satellites and pieces of rocket orbit Earth as space junk, and even a paint fleck at orbital speed can damage a spacecraft. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 030-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond.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 ×6, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nsubj 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 satellites satellite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 rocket rocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound 9 orbit orbit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 junk junk NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 even even ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 fleck fleck NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 orbital orbital ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 damage damage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 spacecraft spacecraft NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **orbit** | present | Thousands of old satellites and pieces rocket and a paint fleck at orbital speed | Earth | | | | as space junk | tree rules | | 2 | **damage** | can | Thousands of old satellites and pieces rocket and a paint fleck at orbital speed *not said here* | 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](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:030-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond.lesson:16`. **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 ×6, 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/). - ← previous: [What comes next: the Moon, Mars and be…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/15/) - next →: [Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/)