--- title: After the Second World War the USA and the Soviet Union became rival… — Space: from Sputnik to the Moon · tree and pragmatics description: After the Second World War the USA and the Soviet Union became rivals in the Cold War, and they raced to be first in space, like two classmates each trying to finish the science project first. Who acts: USA, each. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (USA, each), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:035-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon.lesson:0 # text = After the Second World War the USA and the Soviet Union became rivals in the Cold War, and they raced to be first in space, like two classmates each trying to finish the science project first. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 035-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon.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): no change 1 After after ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 Second Second PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Soviet Soviet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Union Union PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 rivals rival NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 xcomp _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Cold Cold PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 raced race VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 24 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 21 xcomp _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 like like ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 classmates classmate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 31 each each PRON DT PronType=Tot 32 nsubj _ _ 32 trying try VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 project project NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 34 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | the USA and the Soviet Union | rivals in the Cold War | | | after the Second World War | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **race** | past | USA | | | | | like two classmates | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | USA *not said here* | | | space | | first *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **try** | gerund | each | two classmates *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **finish** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | each *not said here* | the science project | | | | first *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality project=Eventuality | 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](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:history:035-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon.lesson:0`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [The Second World War, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/16/) - next →: [Space: from Sputnik to the Moon, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/)