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title: In 2021 China's Tianwen-1 mission orbited Mars and landed the Zhuron… — China: modern China, space and contested topics · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2021 China's Tianwen-1 mission orbited Mars and landed the Zhurong rover, which studied the ground and found signs of ancient water; no life was found. Who acts: Tianwen mission, Zhurong rover. A sentence of the lesson «China: modern China, space and contested topics» of the history course of Mov
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# China: modern China, space and contested topics, sentence 14

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In 2021 China's Tianwen-1 mission orbited Mars and landed the Zhurong rover, which studied the ground and found signs of ancient water; no life was found.

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**Who acts:** Tianwen mission, Zhurong rover · **What happens:** orbit, land, study, find, sign · **To what, where:** Mars, 2021, Zhurong rover, ground, signs, life

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This is a sentence of the lesson «China: modern China, space and contested topics» 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 (Tianwen mission, Zhurong rover), 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:14
# text = In 2021 China's Tianwen-1 mission orbited Mars and landed the Zhurong rover, which studied the ground and found signs of ancient water; no life was found.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
3	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	Tianwen	Tianwen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
7	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
8	mission	mission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	orbited	orbit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Zhurong	Zhurong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	rover	rover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	studied	study	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obj
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **orbit** | past | China's Tianwen mission | Mars |  | 2021 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **land** | past | China's Tianwen mission *not said here* | the Zhurong rover |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme rover=Destination |
| 3 | **study** | past | the Zhurong rover | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Topic |
| 4 | **find** | past | the Zhurong rover *not said here* | signs of ancient water |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Topic |
| 5 | **find** | past · passive |  | no life |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 6 | **sign** |  |  | ancient water |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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:059-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics.lesson:14`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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