Space: from Sputnik to the Moon, sentence 1
In 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, a beeping metal ball that was the first artificial satellite, and its rockets were designed by Serhiy Korolev, born in Zhytomyr in Ukraine.
Who acts: Soviet Union, beeping metal ball, Serhiy · What happens: launch, beep, be, design, bear · To what, where: Sputnik, 1957, first artificial satellite, rockets, Serhiy, Zhytomyr
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 (Soviet Union, beeping metal ball, Serhiy), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1957 | case |
| 2 | 1957 | 1957 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 launched | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Union | det |
| 4 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Union | compound |
| 5 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 launched | nsubj |
| 6 | launched | launch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Sputnik | Sputnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 launched | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ball | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ball | det |
| 10 | beeping | beep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 ball | amod |
| 11 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ball | compound |
| 12 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Sputnik | appos |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 satellite | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 satellite | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 satellite | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 satellite | amod |
| 17 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 satellite | amod |
| 18 | satellite | satellite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ball | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 designed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 designed | cc |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 rockets | nmod:poss |
| 22 | rockets | rocket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 designed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 designed | aux:pass |
| 24 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 launched | conj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 Serhiy | case |
| 26 | Serhiy | Serhiy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 designed | obl |
| 27 | Korolev | Korolev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Serhiy | flat |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 born | punct |
| 29 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 Serhiy | acl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 Zhytomyr | case |
| 31 | Zhytomyr | Zhytomyr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 born | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 Ukraine | case |
| 33 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 born | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 launched | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | launch | past | the Soviet Union | Sputnik | 1957 | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sputnik=Theme in 1957=Destination | |||
| 2 | beep | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | a beeping metal ball | the first artificial satellite | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | design | past · passive | Serhiy | Union's rockets | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result | ||||
| 5 | bear | participle | Serhiy not said here | Zhytomyr | in Ukraine | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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:1.
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.
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