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title: The International Space Station circles the Earth about every 90 min… — Rockets, satellites and astronauts · tree and pragmatics
description: The International Space Station circles the Earth about every 90 minutes, about 400 kilometres up. Who acts: International Space Station. 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 cl
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# Rockets, satellites and astronauts, sentence 16

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The International Space Station circles the Earth about every 90 minutes, about 400 kilometres up.

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**Who acts:** International Space Station · **What happens:** circle · **To what, where:** Earth

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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 (International Space Station), 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:16
# text = The International Space Station circles the Earth about every 90 minutes, about 400 kilometres up.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
2	International	International	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Space	Space	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Station	Station	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	circles	circle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
10	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	up	up	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **circle** | present | the International Space Station | the Earth |  |  | minute | 400 kilometres *obl:unmarked* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme |

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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:16`.

**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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