Space: from Sputnik to the Moon, sentence 4

Behind every astronaut were thousands of people on Earth, and today the old rivals often work together, with astronauts from many countries living on the International Space Station.

Who acts: thousands, old rivals, many countries · What happens: be, work together, live · To what, where: International Space Station

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 (thousands, old rivals, many countries), 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	Behind	behind	ADP	_	3 astronaut	case
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 astronaut	det
3	astronaut	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 were	obl
4	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 were	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thousands	nmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 Earth	case
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 people	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 were	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 work	cc
12	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 work	obl:unmarked
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rivals	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rivals	amod
15	rivals	rival	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 work	nsubj
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 work	advmod
17	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 were	conj
18	together	together	ADV	_	17 work	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 astronauts	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 astronauts	case
21	astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 work	obl
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 countries	case
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 countries	amod
24	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 astronauts	nmod
25	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 countries	acl
26	on	on	ADP	_	30 Station	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Station	det
28	International	International	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Station	compound
29	Space	Space	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Station	compound
30	Station	Station	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 living	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 were	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	thousands of people on Earth			behind every astronaut	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind astronaut=Location
2	work together	present	the old rivals		today	with astronauts from many countries; often, together property	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with astronaut=Co-Agent
3	live	gerund	many countries not said here	the International Space Station			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on station=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, 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: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): R1-cc-next ×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.

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