--- title: Today satellites photograph every part of the Earth, and GPS can tel… — Explorers and how the world was mapped · tree and pragmatics description: Today satellites photograph every part of the Earth, and GPS can tell your position to within a few metres — but the last great blank spaces, like the poles, were reached only about a hundred years ago. Who acts: satellites, GPS. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (satellites, GPS), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:098-explorers-mapping-the-world.lesson:12 # text = Today satellites photograph every part of the Earth, and GPS can tell your position to within a few metres — but the last great blank spaces, like the poles, were reached only about a hundred years ago. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 098-explorers-mapping-the-world.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Today today ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 satellites satellite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 photograph photograph VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 11 GPS GPS PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 position position NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_ 17 within within ADP IN _ 16 fixed _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 21 — - PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 24 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 25 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 blank blank ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 spaces space NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 poles pole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:conj 32 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 33 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 reached reach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 35 only only ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 36 about about ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:obl:unmarked 40 ago ago ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:advmod 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **photograph** | present | satellites | every part of the Earth | | | | today *property* | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | GPS | your position | a few metres | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent position=Topic to metre=Recipient | | 3 | **reach** | past · passive | | the last great blank spaces like the poles | | | | ago *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | 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:098-explorers-mapping-the-world.lesson:12`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Explorers and how the world was mapped, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/11/) - next →: [Explorers and how the world was mapped, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/)