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title: Thousands of satellites are up there doing jobs. — Satellites and GPS · tree and pragmatics
description: Thousands of satellites are up there doing jobs. Who acts: Thousands. 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 every clause.
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# Satellites and GPS, sentence 2

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Thousands of satellites are up there doing jobs.

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**Who acts:** Thousands · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** jobs

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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 (Thousands), 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:2
# text = Thousands of satellites are up there doing jobs.
# 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 ×1
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	satellites	satellite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
7	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:acl
8	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | present | Thousands of satellites |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | Thousands of satellites *not said here* | jobs |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |

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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:2`.

**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 ×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/).

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