--- title: It was thrown sideways so fast by a rocket that as it falls, the rou… — Satellites and GPS · tree and pragmatics description: It was thrown sideways so fast by a rocket that as it falls, the round Earth curves away beneath it, so it keeps falling around the Earth and never hits the ground, like a ball thrown so hard it would go right round the world. Who acts: satellite, round Earth. 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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 (satellite, round Earth), 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:1 # text = It was thrown sideways so fast by a rocket that as it falls, the round Earth curves away beneath it, so it keeps falling around the Earth and never hits the ground, like a ball thrown so hard it would go right round the world. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 thrown throw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 sideways sideway ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 rocket rocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 obj _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 curves curve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 falling fall VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 xcomp _ _ 27 around around ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 hits hit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 39 thrown throw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl _ _ 40 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 39 advmod _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 ccomp _ _ 45 right right ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 46 round round ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 49 . . 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 | **throw** | past · passive | | satellite | | | | by a rocket; fast, sideway *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme by rocket=Destination | | 2 | **fall** | present | satellite | a rocket | | | | | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient that=Result | | 3 | **curve away** | present | the round Earth | | | | | beneath satellite; away *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **keep** | present | satellite | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **fall** | gerund | satellite *not said here* | | | the Earth | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around earth=Location | | 6 | **not** **hit** | present | satellite *not said here* | the ground | | | | like a ball | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme | | 7 | **throw** | participle | | a ball *not said here* | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **go** | would | satellite | | | the world | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round world=Initial\_Location | 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:technology:038-satellites-and-gps.lesson:1`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Satellites and GPS, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/0/) - next →: [Satellites and GPS, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/)