--- title: The International Space Station is a big laboratory orbiting Earth w… — Satellites and GPS · tree and pragmatics description: The International Space Station is a big laboratory orbiting Earth with astronauts on board, and it goes around the Earth about every 90 minutes; the astronauts float because they and the station are falling around the Earth together, though gravity is still there; you can sometimes see it from the --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Satellites and GPS, sentence 16 The International Space Station is a big laboratory orbiting Earth with astronauts on board, and it goes around the Earth about every 90 minutes; the astronauts float because they and the station are falling around the Earth together, though gravity is still there; you can sometimes see it from the ground as a bright moving dot. **Who acts:** International Space Station, big laboratory, Station, astronauts, gravity, you · **What happens:** be, orbit, go, float, fall, see · **To what, where:** big laboratory, Earth, gravity, ground 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 (International Space Station, big laboratory, Station, astronauts), 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:16 # text = The International Space Station is a big laboratory orbiting Earth with astronauts on board, and it goes around the Earth about every 90 minutes; the astronauts float because they and the station are falling around the Earth together, though gravity is still there; you can sometimes see it from the ground as a bright moving dot. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 International International PROPN NNP _ 4 compound _ _ 3 Space Space PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Station Station PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 laboratory laboratory NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 orbiting orbit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 astronauts astronaut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 around around ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 24 90 90 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 astronauts astronaut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 float float VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 30 because because SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 35 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 37 around around ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 together together ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 42 though though SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 43 gravity gravity NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 45 still still ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advcl _ _ 47 ; ; PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 48 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 49 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 50 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 51 advmod _ _ 51 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 52 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 obj _ _ 53 from from ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ _ 56 as as ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 57 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 58 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 amod _ _ 59 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 60 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=60:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 60 dot dot NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ _ 61 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the International Space Station | a big laboratory | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **orbit** | gerund | a big laboratory *not said here* | Earth | | | | with astronauts on board | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | present | Station | | | the Earth | minute | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme around earth=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **float** | present | the astronauts | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fall** | present · progressive | astronauts *= astronaut* | | | the Earth | | together *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around earth=Location | | 6 | **is** | present | gravity | | | | still | there *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **see** | can | you | gravity | | the ground | | as a bright moving dot; sometimes *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus as dot=Attribute | | 8 | **move** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: 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:16`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/15/) - next →: [Satellites and GPS, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/)