--- title: A sat nav uses GPS for its position and a stored map to find a route… — Satellites and GPS · tree and pragmatics description: A sat nav uses GPS for its position and a stored map to find a route; the driver must still watch the road, because sat navs have sent lorries down tiny lanes. Who acts: sat nav, driver, sat navs. A sentence of the lesson «Satellites and GPS» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/11/) [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/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Satellites and GPS](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/) / 11 # Satellites and GPS, sentence 11 A sat nav uses GPS for its position and a stored map to find a route; the driver must still watch the road, because sat navs have sent lorries down tiny lanes. **Who acts:** sat nav, driver, sat navs · **What happens:** use, store, find, watch, send · **To what, where:** GPS, route, road, lorries 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 (sat nav, driver, sat navs), 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:11 # text = A sat nav uses GPS for its position and a stored map to find a route; the driver must still watch the road, because sat navs have sent lorries down tiny lanes. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sat sat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 nav nav NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 GPS GPS NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 position position NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 stored store VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 12 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 route route NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 still still ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 27 sat sat NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 navs nav NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 31 lorries lorry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 down down ADP IN _ 34 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 33 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 lanes lane NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | a sat nav | GPS | | | | for nav's position and a stored map | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent gps=Theme for position=Eventuality | | 2 | **store** | participle | | | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | a sat nav *not said here* | a route | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent route=Topic | | 4 | **watch** | must | the driver | the road | | | still | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | | 5 | **send** | present · perfect | sat navs | lorries | | | | down tiny lanes | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lorry=Theme | 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:11`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/10/) - next →: [Satellites and GPS, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/)