China: modern China, space and contested topics, sentence 12

Yang Liwei became China's first astronaut in 2003, making China the third country, after the USSR and the USA, to send people to space on its own rockets.

Who acts: Yang · What happens: become, make, send · To what, where: first astronaut, 2003, China, people, own rockets

This is a sentence of the lesson «China: modern China, space and contested topics» 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 (Yang), 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	Yang	Yang	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 became	nsubj
2	Liwei	Liwei	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Yang	flat
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 astronaut	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 China	case
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 astronaut	amod
7	astronaut	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 2003	case
9	2003	2003	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 became	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 making	punct
11	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 became	advcl
12	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 making	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 country	det
14	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 country	amod
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 making	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 USSR	punct
17	after	after	ADP	_	19 USSR	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 USSR	det
19	USSR	USSR	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 country	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 USA	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 USA	det
22	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 USSR	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 send	punct
24	to	to	PART	_	25 send	mark
25	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 country	acl
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 send	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 space	case
28	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 send	obl
29	on	on	ADP	_	32 rockets	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 rockets	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 rockets	amod
32	rockets	rocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 send	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	Yang	China's first astronaut		in 2003 result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2003=Result
2	make	gerund	Yang not said here	China			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset china=Product
3	send	to-infinitive	Yang not said here	people	country's own rockets	to space	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme to space=Destination

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:059-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics.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 ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

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