--- title: Space junk is broken satellites and pieces orbiting Earth very fast,… — Satellites and GPS · tree and pragmatics description: Space junk is broken satellites and pieces orbiting Earth very fast, and space agencies track it because even a small fleck of paint can damage a spacecraft. Who acts: Space junk, broken satellites, space agencies, small fleck. A sentence of the lesson «Satellites and GPS» of the technology course o --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Satellites and GPS, sentence 17 Space junk is broken satellites and pieces orbiting Earth very fast, and space agencies track it because even a small fleck of paint can damage a spacecraft. **Who acts:** Space junk, broken satellites, space agencies, small fleck · **What happens:** be, orbit, track, damage · **To what, where:** broken satellites, Earth, junk, spacecraft 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 (Space junk, broken satellites, space agencies, small fleck), 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:17 # text = Space junk is broken satellites and pieces orbiting Earth very fast, and space agencies track it because even a small fleck of paint can damage a spacecraft. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 junk junk NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 broken broken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 satellites satellite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 orbiting orbit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl 9 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 agencies agency NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 track track VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 19 even even ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 fleck fleck NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 damage damage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 spacecraft spacecraft NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Space junk | broken satellites and pieces | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **orbit** | gerund | broken satellites and pieces *not said here* | Earth | | | | fast *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **track** | present | space agencies | junk | | | | | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **damage** | can | a small fleck of paint | a spacecraft | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spacecraft=Patient | 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:17`. **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, R8-pos-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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/16/) - next →: [Satellites and GPS, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/)