--- title: In 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, a beeping metal ball that… — Space: from Sputnik to the Moon · tree and pragmatics description: In 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, a beeping metal ball that was the first artificial satellite, and its rockets were designed by Serhiy Korolev, born in Zhytomyr in Ukraine. Who acts: Soviet Union, beeping metal ball, Serhiy. 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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 (Soviet Union, beeping metal ball, Serhiy), 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:1 # text = In 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, a beeping metal ball that was the first artificial satellite, and its rockets were designed by Serhiy Korolev, born in Zhytomyr in Ukraine. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1957 1957 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Soviet Soviet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Union Union PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 launched launch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 Sputnik Sputnik PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 beeping beep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 amod _ _ 11 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 18 amod _ _ 17 artificial artificial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 satellite satellite NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 acl:relcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 rockets rocket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 designed design VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Serhiy Serhiy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 Korolev Korolev PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 flat _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Zhytomyr Zhytomyr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **launch** | past | the Soviet Union | Sputnik | | 1957 | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sputnik=Theme in 1957=Destination | | 2 | **beep** | gerund | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | past | a beeping metal ball | the first artificial satellite | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **design** | past · passive | Serhiy | Union's rockets | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result | | 5 | **bear** | participle | | Serhiy *not said here* | | Zhytomyr | | in Ukraine | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | 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: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): 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: [Space: from Sputnik to the Moon, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/0/) - next →: [Space: from Sputnik to the Moon, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/)