Space: from Sputnik to the Moon, sentence 0
After the Second World War the USA and the Soviet Union became rivals in the Cold War, and they raced to be first in space, like two classmates each trying to finish the science project first.
Who acts: USA, each · What happens: become, race, be, try, finish · To what, where: rivals, space, two classmates, science project
This is a sentence of the lesson «Space: from Sputnik to the Moon» of the history 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 (USA, each), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 War | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 War | det |
| 3 | Second | Second | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 War | compound |
| 4 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 War | compound |
| 5 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 became | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 USA | det |
| 7 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 became | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Union | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Union | det |
| 10 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Union | compound |
| 11 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 USA | conj |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | rivals | rival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 became | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 War | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 War | det |
| 16 | Cold | Cold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 War | compound |
| 17 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 rivals | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 raced | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 raced | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 raced | nsubj |
| 21 | raced | race | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 became | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 first | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 first | cop |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 raced | xcomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 space | case |
| 26 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 first | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 classmates | punct |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 classmates | case |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 classmates | nummod |
| 30 | classmates | classmate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 raced | obl |
| 31 | each | each | PRON | PronType=Tot | 32 trying | nsubj |
| 32 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 classmates | acl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 finish | mark |
| 34 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 trying | xcomp |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 project | det |
| 36 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 project | compound |
| 37 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 finish | obj |
| 38 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 34 finish | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 became | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the USA and the Soviet Union | rivals in the Cold War | after the Second World War | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | race | past | USA | like two classmates | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | USA not said here | space | first property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | try | gerund | each | two classmates not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | finish not said to happen | to-infinitive | each not said here | the science project | first property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality project=Eventuality |
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, 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:history:035-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon.lesson:0.
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.
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