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title: Satellites are used for weather forecasts, phone calls, television,… — Rockets, satellites and astronauts · tree and pragmatics
description: Satellites are used for weather forecasts, phone calls, television, maps and finding the way. 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 17

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Satellites are used for weather forecasts, phone calls, television, maps and finding the way.

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**What happens:** use, find · **To what, where:** Satellites, way

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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: 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:17
# text = Satellites are used for weather forecasts, phone calls, television, maps and finding the 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): no change
1	Satellites	satellite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	forecasts	forecast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	television	television	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · passive |  | Satellites |  |  |  | for weather forecasts and phone calls and television and maps | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for forecast=Eventuality |
| 2 | **find** | gerund |  | the way |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |

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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:17`.

**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): no change. **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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