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title: A satellite does not float in space; it is falling all the time. — Satellites and GPS · tree and pragmatics
description: A satellite does not float in space; it is falling all the time. Who acts: satellite. A sentence of the lesson «Satellites and GPS» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Satellites and GPS, sentence 0

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A satellite does not float in space; it is falling all the time.

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**Who acts:** satellite · **What happens:** not float, fall · **To what, where:** space

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Satellites and GPS» of the technology 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 (satellite), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:038-satellites-and-gps.lesson:0
# text = A satellite does not float in space; it is falling all the time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 038-satellites-and-gps.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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	satellite	satellite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	.	.	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 | **not** **float** | present · do-support | a satellite |  |  | space |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in space=Trajectory |
| 2 | **fall** | present · progressive | satellite |  |  |  | time |  | vn occur-48.3 «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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**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:technology:038-satellites-and-gps.lesson:0`.

**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 ×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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