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title: In 2022 the DART spacecraft bumped into an asteroid and changed its… — The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who… · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2022 the DART spacecraft bumped into an asteroid and changed its path, a test of how to protect Earth. Who acts: DART spacecraft. A sentence of the lesson «The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived, sentence 14

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In 2022 the DART spacecraft bumped into an asteroid and changed its path, a test of how to protect Earth.

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**Who acts:** DART spacecraft · **What happens:** bump, change, protect · **To what, where:** 2022, path, Earth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived» of the biology 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 (DART spacecraft), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died.lesson:14
# text = In 2022 the DART spacecraft bumped into an asteroid and changed its path, a test of how to protect Earth.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died.lesson
# annotation = 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	DART	dart	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	spacecraft	spacecraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bumped	bump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
21	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bump** | past | the DART spacecraft |  |  | 2022 |  | into a asteroid | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into asteroid=Location |
| 2 | **change** | past | the DART spacecraft *not said here* | asteroid's path |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Patient |
| 3 | **protect** | to-infinitive | the DART spacecraft *not said here* |  | Earth |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Beneficiary |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died.lesson:14`.

**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, R6-punct-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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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