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title: A jet plane's engines burn their fuel with oxygen from the air aroun… — Rockets, satellites and astronauts · tree and pragmatics
description: A jet plane's engines burn their fuel with oxygen from the air around them, so a plane cannot fly in space. Who acts: engines, plane. A sentence of the lesson «Rockets, satellites and astronauts» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Rockets, satellites and astronauts, sentence 10

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A jet plane's engines burn their fuel with oxygen from the air around them, so a plane cannot fly in space.

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**Who acts:** engines, plane · **What happens:** burn, not fly · **To what, where:** fuel, air, space

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rockets, satellites and astronauts» of the world 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 (engines, plane), 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:10
# text = A jet plane's engines burn their fuel with oxygen from the air around them, so a plane cannot fly in space.
# 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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	jet	jet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	plane	plane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	engines	engine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	burn	burn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	around	around	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	plane	plane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | present | a jet plane's engines | engines's fuel |  | the air around kilometres |  | with oxygen | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fuel=Patient with oxygen=Instrument |
| 2 | **not** **fly** | can | a plane |  |  | space |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in space=Location |

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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.

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**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:10`.

**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. **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/).

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