--- title: A drone flies with four or more small rotors spinning at different s… — Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones · tree and pragmatics description: A drone flies with four or more small rotors spinning at different speeds, and some hold their place in the air using GPS. Who acts: drone, four small rotors, some. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drone, four small rotors, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:023-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones.lesson:19 # text = A drone flies with four or more small rotors spinning at different speeds, and some hold their place in the air using GPS. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 023-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones.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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 drone drone NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 flies fly VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 5 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 conj _ _ 8 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 rotors rotor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 10 spinning spin VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 speeds speed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 nsubj _ _ 17 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 using use VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:acl 24 GPS GPS NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | present | a drone | | | | | with four small rotors | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **spin** | gerund | four small rotors *not said here* | | | different speeds | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at speed=Trajectory | | 3 | **hold** | present | some | speeds's place | | the air | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Theme in air=Location | | 4 | **use** | gerund | some *not said here* | GPS | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gps=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. 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