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title: In 1970 an oxygen tank exploded on Apollo 13 on the way to the Moon,… — Space: from Sputnik to the Moon · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1970 an oxygen tank exploded on Apollo 13 on the way to the Moon, and the crew and mission control worked out how to bring them home safely. Who acts: oxygen tank, crew. A sentence of the lesson «Space: from Sputnik to the Moon» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Space: from Sputnik to the Moon, sentence 16

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In 1970 an oxygen tank exploded on Apollo 13 on the way to the Moon, and the crew and mission control worked out how to bring them home safely.

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**Who acts:** oxygen tank, crew · **What happens:** explode, work out, bring · **To what, where:** 1970, crew

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Space: from Sputnik to the Moon» of the history 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 (oxygen tank, crew), 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:16
# text = In 1970 an oxygen tank exploded on Apollo 13 on the way to the Moon, and the crew and mission control worked out how to bring them home safely.
# 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	1970	1970	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	tank	tank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	exploded	explode	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	mission	mission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	home	home	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **explode** | past | a oxygen tank |  |  | 1970 |  | on Apollo; on the way to the Moon | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1970=Location |
| 2 | **work out** | past | the crew and mission control |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive | the crew and mission control *not said here* | crew |  |  |  | home, safely *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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:history:035-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon.lesson:16`.

**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/).

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