--- title: A rocket works like a balloon let go: it throws hot gas out of its t… — Rockets, satellites and astronauts · tree and pragmatics description: A rocket works like a balloon let go: it throws hot gas out of its tail very hard, and the gas pushes the rocket the other way. Who acts: rocket, gas. 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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 (rocket, gas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:071-rockets-satellites-astronauts.lesson:0 # text = A rocket works like a balloon let go: it throws hot gas out of its tail very hard, and the gas pushes the rocket the other way. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 071-rockets-satellites-astronauts.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rocket rocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 6 balloon balloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound 7 let let NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 go go NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 throws throw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 12 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 out out ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 very very ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 rocket rocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 . . 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 | **work** | present | a rocket | a balloon | | | | like let go | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **throw** | present | rocket | hot gas | | rocket's tail | | hard *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent gas=Theme out tail=Destination | | 3 | **push** | present | the gas | the rocket | | | | the other way *obl:unmarked* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rocket=Theme | 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:world:071-rockets-satellites-astronauts.lesson:0`. **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 ×2, 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: [Stars, planets and constellations in t…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/17/) - next →: [Rockets, satellites and astronauts, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/71-rockets-satellites-astronauts/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/71-rockets-satellites-astronauts/)