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title: On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, orbi… — Space: from Sputnik to the Moon · tree and pragmatics
description: On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, orbiting the Earth once in 108 minutes. Who acts: Yuri. 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 9

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On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, orbiting the Earth once in 108 minutes.

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**Who acts:** Yuri · **What happens:** become, orbit · **To what, where:** first person, 12, 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 (Yuri), 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:9
# text = On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, orbiting the Earth once in 108 minutes.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	1961	1961	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
5	Yuri	Yuri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Gagarin	Gagarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	orbiting	orbit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	108	108	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 |  | 12  April |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **orbit** | gerund | Yuri *not said here* | the Earth |  |  | minute | once *property* | tree rules |

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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:9`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×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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