The history of space exploration, sentence 2

Space history has dark pages too: the first rocket to reach space was a wartime weapon built partly by prisoners, the dog Laika never came home, and two Shuttle crews died.

Who acts: Space history, first rocket, Laika, two Shuttle crews · What happens: have, reach, be, build, not come, die · To what, where: dark pages, space, wartime weapon, dog

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 history, first rocket, Laika, two Shuttle crews), 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	Space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 history	compound
2	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pages	amod
5	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	3 has	advmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rocket	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 rocket	amod
10	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 weapon	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 reach	mark
12	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 rocket	acl
13	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reach	obj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 weapon	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 weapon	det
16	wartime	wartime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 weapon	amod
17	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	parataxis
18	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 weapon	acl
19	partly	partly	ADV	_	18 built	advmod
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 prisoners	case
21	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 built	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dog	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dog	det
24	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 weapon	appos
25	Laika	Laika	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 came	advmod
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 dog	acl:relcl
28	home	home	ADV	_	27 came	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 died	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 died	cc
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 crews	nummod
32	Shuttle	shuttle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 crews	compound
33	crews	crew	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 died	nsubj
34	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 came	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Space history	dark pages		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent page=Patient
2	reach	to-infinitive	the first rocket not said here	space		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent space=Theme
3	is a	past	the first rocket	a wartime weapon		tree rules
4	build	participle		a wartime weapon not said here	by prisoners; partly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	not come	past	Laika	the dog not said here	home property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme
6	die	past	two Shuttle crews			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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:2.

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): R8-pos-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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