Space: from Sputnik to the Moon, sentence 6
In 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, a metal ball that beeped as it circled the Earth.
Who acts: Soviet Union, metal ball, Union · What happens: launch, beep, circle · To what, where: Sputnik, 1957, Earth
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, metal ball, Union), 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 satellite | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 satellite | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 satellite | amod |
| 11 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 satellite | amod |
| 12 | satellite | satellite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Sputnik | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ball | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ball | det |
| 15 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ball | compound |
| 16 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Sputnik | appos |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 beeped | nsubj |
| 18 | beeped | beep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ball | acl:relcl |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 circled | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 circled | nsubj |
| 21 | circled | circle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 beeped | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Earth | det |
| 23 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 circled | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 launched | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | 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 | past | a metal ball | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | circle | past | Union | the Earth | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-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, 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:6.
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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