Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★, sentence 21
The Soviet satellite Sputnik in 1957 shocked the United States, which set up NASA in 1958 and raced the Soviet Union to the Moon, landing there in 1969.
Who acts: Soviet satellite Sputnik, United States · What happens: shock, set up, race, land · To what, where: United States, 1957, NASA, 1958, Soviet Union, 1969
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★» 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 satellite Sputnik, United States), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 satellite | det |
| 2 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Sputnik | compound |
| 3 | satellite | satellite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Sputnik | compound |
| 4 | Sputnik | Sputnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shocked | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1957 | case |
| 6 | 1957 | 1957 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 shocked | obl |
| 7 | shocked | shock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 States | det |
| 9 | United | United | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 States | amod |
| 10 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 shocked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 set | nsubj |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 States | acl:relcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | NASA | NASA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 1958 | case |
| 17 | 1958 | 1958 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 set | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 raced | cc |
| 19 | raced | race | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 set | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Union | det |
| 21 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Union | compound |
| 22 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 raced | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Moon | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Moon | det |
| 25 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 raced | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 landing | punct |
| 27 | landing | land | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 raced | advcl |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 landing | advmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 1969 | case |
| 30 | 1969 | 1969 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 landing | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shocked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shock | past | Soviet satellite Sputnik | the United States | 1957 | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus state=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | set up | past | the United States | NASA | 1958 | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nasa=Theme in 1958=Destination | |||
| 3 | race | past | the United States not said here | the Soviet Union | to the Moon result | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent union=Theme to moon=Result | |||
| 4 | land | gerund | the United States not said here | 1969; there | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in 1969=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.
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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): R5-strong ×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.
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