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title: In 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial sate… — Space: from Sputnik to the Moon · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, a metal ball that beeped as it circled the Earth. Who acts: Soviet Union, metal ball, Union. A sentence of the lesson «Space: from Sputnik to the Moon» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Space: from Sputnik to the Moon, sentence 6

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In 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, a metal ball that beeped as it circled the Earth.

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**Who acts:** Soviet Union, metal ball, Union · **What happens:** launch, beep, circle · **To what, where:** Sputnik, 1957, Earth

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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 (Soviet Union, metal ball, Union), 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:6
# text = In 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, a metal ball that beeped as it circled the Earth.
# 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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
11	artificial	artificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	satellite	satellite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	beeped	beep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	circled	circle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **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** | past | a metal ball |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **circle** | past | Union | the Earth |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-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:6`.

**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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