--- title: A satellite is a machine launched into orbit, falling around the Ear… — Satellites and GPS · tree and pragmatics description: A satellite is a machine launched into orbit, falling around the Earth fast enough that it never hits the ground; there are thousands of working satellites around Earth. Who acts: satellite, thousands. A sentence of the lesson «Satellites and GPS» of the technology course of Mova's primary school wi --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Satellites and GPS, sentence 8 A satellite is a machine launched into orbit, falling around the Earth fast enough that it never hits the ground; there are thousands of working satellites around Earth. **Who acts:** satellite, thousands · **What happens:** be, launch, fall, not hit, work · **To what, where:** machine, orbit, Earth, ground 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 (satellite, 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:8 # text = A satellite is a machine launched into orbit, falling around the Earth fast enough that it never hits the ground; there are thousands of working satellites around Earth. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 satellite satellite NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 launched launch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 orbit orbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 11 around around ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 15 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 hits hit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 23 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 24 expl _ _ 24 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 25 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 amod _ _ 28 satellites satellite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 around around ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a satellite | a machine | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **launch** | participle | | a machine *not said here* | | | | into orbit *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into orbit=Result | | 3 | **fall** | gerund | | | | the Earth | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around earth=Location | | 4 | **not** **hit** | present | satellite | the ground | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme | | 5 | **does** | present | thousands of working satellites around Earth | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **work** | gerund | | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:8`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/7/) - next →: [Satellites and GPS, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/)