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title: Behind every astronaut were thousands of people on Earth, and today… — Space: from Sputnik to the Moon · tree and pragmatics
description: Behind every astronaut were thousands of people on Earth, and today the old rivals often work together, with astronauts from many countries living on the International Space Station. Who acts: thousands, old rivals, many countries. A sentence of the lesson «Space: from Sputnik to the Moon» of the hi
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# Space: from Sputnik to the Moon, sentence 4

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Behind every astronaut were thousands of people on Earth, and today the old rivals often work together, with astronauts from many countries living on the International Space Station.

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**Who acts:** thousands, old rivals, many countries · **What happens:** be, work together, live · **To what, where:** International Space Station

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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 (thousands, old rivals, many countries), 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:4
# text = Behind every astronaut were thousands of people on Earth, and today the old rivals often work together, with astronauts from many countries living on the International Space Station.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	astronaut	astronaut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
12	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rivals	rival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	together	together	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	acl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	International	International	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	Space	Space	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Station	Station	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **be** | past | thousands of people on Earth |  |  |  |  | behind every astronaut | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind astronaut=Location |
| 2 | **work together** | present | the old rivals |  |  |  | today | with astronauts from many countries; often, together *property* | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with astronaut=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **live** | gerund | many countries *not said here* |  |  | the International Space Station |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on station=Location |

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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:4`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1. **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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