--- title: A Mars rover drives itself short distances because radio signals tak… — Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: A Mars rover drives itself short distances because radio signals take minutes to travel between Mars and Earth. Who acts: Mars rover, radio signals. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/43-olympiad-transport-building-and-energy/17/) [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/) / [Olympiad: transport, building and ener…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/43-olympiad-transport-building-and-energy/) / 17 # Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★, sentence 17 A Mars rover drives itself short distances because radio signals take minutes to travel between Mars and Earth. **Who acts:** Mars rover, radio signals · **What happens:** drive, take, travel · **To what, where:** rover, Mars This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★» 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 (Mars rover, radio signals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:043-olympiad-transport-building-and-energy.lesson:17 # text = A Mars rover drives itself short distances because radio signals take minutes to travel between Mars and Earth. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 043-olympiad-transport-building-and-energy.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Mars Mars PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 rover rover NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 drives drive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ _ 6 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 distances distance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 radio radio NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 12 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl 15 between between ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Mars Mars PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drive** | present | a Mars rover | rover | | | | short distances *obl* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme itself=Trajectory | | 2 | **take** | present | radio signals | | | | minute | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **travel** | to-infinitive | radio signals *not said here* | | | Mars and Earth | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between mars=Trajectory | 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. 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