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title: Weather satellites photograph clouds and measure temperatures, which… — Satellites and GPS · tree and pragmatics
description: Weather satellites photograph clouds and measure temperatures, which helps forecasters predict storms days ahead. Who acts: Weather satellites, forecasters. 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 
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# Satellites and GPS, sentence 13

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Weather satellites photograph clouds and measure temperatures, which helps forecasters predict storms days ahead.

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**Who acts:** Weather satellites, forecasters · **What happens:** photograph, measure, help, predict · **To what, where:** clouds, temperatures, forecasters, storms

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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 (Weather satellites, forecasters), 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:13
# text = Weather satellites photograph clouds and measure temperatures, which helps forecasters predict storms days ahead.
# 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): no change
1	Weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	satellites	satellite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	photograph	photograph	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	measure	measure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	forecasters	forecaster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	predict	predict	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	xcomp	_	_
13	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **photograph** | present | Weather satellites | clouds |  |  |  |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme |
| 2 | **measure** | present | Weather satellites *not said here* | temperatures |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme temperature=Value |
| 3 | **help** | present |  | forecasters |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent forecaster=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 4 | **predict** | present | forecasters *not said here* | storms |  |  | day |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot storm=Topic |

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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:13`.

**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): no change. **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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