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title: In 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, in 1963 Valen… — Space: from Sputnik to the Moon · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, in 1963 Valentina Tereshkova the first woman, and on 20 July 1969 the Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon. Who acts: Yuri, Americans. A sentence of the lesson «Space: from Sputnik to the Moon» of the history course of Mov
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# Space: from Sputnik to the Moon, sentence 2

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In 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, in 1963 Valentina Tereshkova the first woman, and on 20 July 1969 the Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon.

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**Who acts:** Yuri, Americans · **What happens:** become, walk · **To what, where:** first person, 1961, 20

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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 (Yuri, Americans), 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:2
# text = In 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, in 1963 Valentina Tereshkova the first woman, and on 20 July 1969 the Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon.
# 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	1961	1961	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	Yuri	Yuri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Gagarin	Gagarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1963	1963	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
14	Valentina	Valentina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Tereshkova	Tereshkova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	obl	_	_
23	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:unmarked	_	_
24	1969	1969	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Americans	American	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
27	Neil	Neil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
28	Armstrong	Armstrong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	Buzz	Buzz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	Aldrin	Aldrin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	_
32	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **become** | past | Yuri | the first person in space |  |  |  | in 1961 *result*; in 1963  Valentina Tereshkova  the first woman | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1961=Result |
| 2 | **walk** | past | the Americans |  |  | 20 |  | on the Moon | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on 20=Trajectory |

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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:2`.

**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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