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title: Their footprints are still there, because the Moon has no wind or ra… — Space: from Sputnik to the Moon · tree and pragmatics
description: Their footprints are still there, because the Moon has no wind or rain to blow them away. Who acts: footprints, Moon. A sentence of the lesson «Space: from Sputnik to the Moon» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Space: from Sputnik to the Moon, sentence 3

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Their footprints are still there, because the Moon has no wind or rain to blow them away.

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**Who acts:** footprints, Moon · **What happens:** be, have, blow away · **To what, where:** wind, Americans

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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 (footprints, Moon), 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:3
# text = Their footprints are still there, because the Moon has no wind or rain to blow them away.
# 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	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	footprints	footprint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Americans's footprints |  |  |  | still | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | the Moon | no wind or rain |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Patient |
| 3 | **blow away** | to-infinitive | the Moon *not said here* | Americans *= american* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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:3`.

**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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