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title: Each GPS satellite keeps perfect time with an atomic clock and keeps… — Satellites and GPS · tree and pragmatics
description: Each GPS satellite keeps perfect time with an atomic clock and keeps calling out the time. Who acts: GPS satellite. 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 5

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Each GPS satellite keeps perfect time with an atomic clock and keeps calling out the time.

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**Who acts:** GPS satellite · **What happens:** keep, call out

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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 (GPS satellite), 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:5
# text = Each GPS satellite keeps perfect time with an atomic clock and keeps calling out the time.
# 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	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	GPS	GPS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	satellite	satellite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	atomic	atomic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | each GPS satellite |  |  |  | time | with a atomic clock | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | present | each GPS satellite *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **call out** *speech: assert* | gerund | each GPS satellite *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:5`.

**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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