--- title: A satellite stays up because it moves sideways very fast, about 8 ki… — Rockets, satellites and astronauts · tree and pragmatics description: A satellite stays up because it moves sideways very fast, about 8 kilometres every second; it keeps falling towards the Earth, but the curved ground falls away beneath it just as fast, so it falls around the Earth forever. Who acts: satellite, curved ground, ground. A sentence of the lesson «Rockets --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/71-rockets-satellites-astronauts/4/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Rockets, satellites and astronauts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/71-rockets-satellites-astronauts/) / 4 # Rockets, satellites and astronauts, sentence 4 A satellite stays up because it moves sideways very fast, about 8 kilometres every second; it keeps falling towards the Earth, but the curved ground falls away beneath it just as fast, so it falls around the Earth forever. **Who acts:** satellite, curved ground, ground · **What happens:** stay up, move, keep, fall, curve, fall away · **To what, where:** 8 kilometres, Earth 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 (satellite, curved ground, ground), 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:4 # text = A satellite stays up because it moves sideways very fast, about 8 kilometres every second; it keeps falling towards the Earth, but the curved ground falls away beneath it just as fast, so it falls around the Earth forever. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 satellite satellite NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 because because SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 8 sideways sideways ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 fast fast ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl 16 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl:unmarked 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 20 falling fall VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 xcomp _ _ 21 towards towards ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 curved curve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ _ 28 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 away away ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 33 just just ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 as as ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advcl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 40 around around ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 forever forever ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **stay up** | present | a satellite | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **move** | present | satellite | 8 kilometres every second | | | | fast, sideways *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **keep** | present | satellite | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fall** | gerund | satellite *not said here* | | | the Earth | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards earth=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **curve** | participle | | | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | | 6 | **fall away** | present | the curved ground | | | | | beneath satellite; away, fast *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **fall** | present | ground | | | the Earth | | forever *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around earth=Location | 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:4`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [Rockets, satellites and astronauts, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/71-rockets-satellites-astronauts/3/) - next →: [Rockets, satellites and astronauts, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/71-rockets-satellites-astronauts/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/71-rockets-satellites-astronauts/)