Venus, sentence 8

Soviet Venera landers in the 1970s and 1980s survived only about an hour or two before the heat and pressure destroyed them.

Who acts: Soviet landers, heat · What happens: survive, destroy · To what, where: landers

This is a sentence of the lesson «Venus» 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 (Soviet landers, heat), 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	Soviet	soviet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 landers	amod
2	Venera	Venera	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Soviet	flat
3	landers	lander	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 survived	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 1970s	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 1970s	det
6	1970s	1970s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	3 landers	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 1980s	cc
8	1980s	1980s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	6 1970s	conj
9	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	only	only	ADV	_	9 survived	advmod
11	about	about	ADV	_	13 hour	advmod
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hour	det
13	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 survived	obj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 two	cc
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hour	conj
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 destroyed	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 heat	det
18	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 destroyed	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pressure	cc
20	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heat	conj
21	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 survived	advcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 destroyed	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 survived	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	past	Soviet landers in the 1970s and 1980s				hour		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	destroy	past	the heat and pressure	landers = lander					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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:004-venus.lesson:8.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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