The history of space exploration, sentence 1

The space age began in a race between the Soviet Union and the USA: the Soviets launched the first satellite and the first person, and the Americans first landed people on the Moon.

Who acts: space age, Soviets, Americans · What happens: begin, launch, land · To what, where: race, first satellite, people, Moon

This is a sentence of the lesson «The history of space exploration» of the space 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 (space age, Soviets, Americans), 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 age	det
2	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 age	compound
3	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 race	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 race	det
7	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	obl
8	between	between	ADP	_	11 Union	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Union	det
10	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Union	compound
11	Union	Union	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 race	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 USA	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 USA	det
14	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Union	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 launched	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Soviets	det
17	Soviets	Soviet	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 launched	nsubj
18	launched	launch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 satellite	det
20	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 satellite	amod
21	satellite	satellite	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 launched	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 person	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 person	det
24	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 person	amod
25	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 satellite	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 landed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 landed	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Americans	det
29	Americans	American	PROPN	Number=Plur	31 landed	nsubj
30	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 landed	advmod
31	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 launched	conj
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 landed	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 Moon	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Moon	det
35	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 landed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the space age		a race between the Soviet Union and the USA		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	launch	past	the Soviets	the first satellite and the first person			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satellite=Theme
3	land	past	the Americans	people	the Moon	first property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme on moon=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:space:029-the-history-of-space-exploration.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): 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.

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