--- title: Space is getting crowded, too: old satellites and broken pieces race… — Satellites and GPS · tree and pragmatics description: Space is getting crowded, too: old satellites and broken pieces race round the Earth as space junk, and even a fleck of paint at that speed can damage a spacecraft. Who acts: Space, old satellites, fleck. A sentence of the lesson «Satellites and GPS» of the technology course of Mova's primary school --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Satellites and GPS, sentence 7 Space is getting crowded, too: old satellites and broken pieces race round the Earth as space junk, and even a fleck of paint at that speed can damage a spacecraft. **Who acts:** Space, old satellites, fleck · **What happens:** get, break, race, damage · **To what, where:** Earth, 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, old satellites, 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:7 # text = Space is getting crowded, too: old satellites and broken pieces race round the Earth as space junk, and even a fleck of paint at that speed 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 crowded crowded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 satellites satellite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 11 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 12 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 race race VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 round round ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 as as ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 junk junk NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 20 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 22 even even ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 fleck fleck NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 det _ _ 29 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 damage damage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 spacecraft spacecraft NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 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 | **get** | present · progressive | Space | | | | | crowded *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **race** | present | old satellites and broken pieces | | | the Earth | | as space junk | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round earth=Trajectory | | 4 | **damage** | can | a fleck of paint at that speed | 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:7`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/6/) - next →: [Satellites and GPS, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/)