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title: A rocket carries its own oxygen because there is no air in space. — Rockets, satellites and astronauts · tree and pragmatics
description: A rocket carries its own oxygen because there is no air in space. Who acts: rocket, air. 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 9

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A rocket carries its own oxygen because there is no air in space.

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**Who acts:** rocket, air · **What happens:** carry, be · **To what, where:** own oxygen

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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 (rocket, air), 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:9
# text = A rocket carries its own oxygen because there is no air 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rocket	rocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **carry** | present | a rocket | rocket's own oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | present | no air in space |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:9`.

**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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