--- title: Your phone hears several of them, works out how long each call took… — Satellites and GPS · tree and pragmatics description: Your phone hears several of them, works out how long each call took to arrive, and from that how far away each satellite is, and so exactly where you are. Who acts: phone, call, satellite, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (phone, call, satellite, you), 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:6 # text = Your phone hears several of them, works out how long each call took to arrive, and from that how far away each satellite is, and so exactly where you are. # 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 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hears hear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 9 out out ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 11 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 12 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 arrive arrive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 obl _ _ 21 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod 22 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 23 away away ADV RB _ 3 parataxis _ _ 24 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 satellite satellite NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 3 conj _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | present | Your phone | several of forecast | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer several=Stimulus | | 2 | **work out** | present | Your phone *not said here* | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **take** | past | each call | | | | | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **arrive** | to-infinitive | each call *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | each satellite | | | | | that *obl*; away, far *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | you | | | | | exactly, where *property* | tree rules | 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:6`. **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. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/5/) - next →: [Satellites and GPS, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/)