--- title: A satellite TV dish collects weak signals from a satellite far above… — Satellites and GPS · tree and pragmatics description: A satellite TV dish collects weak signals from a satellite far above the equator and focuses them onto a receiver, so in the UK all the dishes on a street face south-east, the same way. Who acts: TV dish, dishes. A sentence of the lesson «Satellites and GPS» of the technology course of Mova's primar --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # Satellites and GPS, sentence 12 A satellite TV dish collects weak signals from a satellite far above the equator and focuses them onto a receiver, so in the UK all the dishes on a street face south-east, the same way. **Who acts:** TV dish, dishes · **What happens:** collect, focus, face · **To what, where:** weak signals, satellite, signals, receiver, UK 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 (TV dish, dishes), 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:12 # text = A satellite TV dish collects weak signals from a satellite far above the equator and focuses them onto a receiver, so in the UK all the dishes on a street face south-east, the same way. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 satellite satellite NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 collects collect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 satellite satellite NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 12 above above ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 equator equator NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 focuses focus VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 onto onto ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 receiver receiver NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 26 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 28 det:predet _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 dishes dish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 face face VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 33 south south ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 35 east east ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **collect** | present | a TV dish | weak signals | | a satellite above the equator | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent signal=Theme from satellite=Source | | 2 | **focus** | present | a TV dish *not said here* | signals *= signal* | | a receiver | | | tree rules | | 3 | **face** | present | all dishes on a street | | | the UK | | east *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:12`. **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 ×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: [Satellites and GPS, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/11/) - next →: [Satellites and GPS, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/)