--- title: Yang Liwei became China's first astronaut in 2003, making China the… — China: modern China, space and contested topics · tree and pragmatics description: Yang Liwei became China's first astronaut in 2003, making China the third country, after the USSR and the USA, to send people to space on its own rockets. Who acts: Yang. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yang), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:059-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics.lesson:12 # text = Yang Liwei became China's first astronaut in 2003, making China the third country, after the USSR and the USA, to send people to space on its own rockets. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 059-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics.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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Yang Yang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Liwei Liwei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 7 amod _ _ 7 astronaut astronaut NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 2003 2003 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 12 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 amod _ _ 15 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 after after ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 USSR USSR PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:mark|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_ 28 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 rockets rocket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | Yang | China's first astronaut | | | | in 2003 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2003=Result | | 2 | **make** | gerund | Yang *not said here* | China | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset china=Product | | 3 | **send** | to-infinitive | Yang *not said here* | people | | country's own rockets | | to space | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme to space=Destination | 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. **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:059-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics.lesson:12`. **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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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. 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