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title: The Soviet satellite Sputnik in 1957 shocked the United States, whic… — Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: The Soviet satellite Sputnik in 1957 shocked the United States, which set up NASA in 1958 and raced the Soviet Union to the Moon, landing there in 1969. Who acts: Soviet satellite Sputnik, United States. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★» of the history course of Mova's
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# Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★, sentence 21

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The Soviet satellite Sputnik in 1957 shocked the United States, which set up NASA in 1958 and raced the Soviet Union to the Moon, landing there in 1969.

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**Who acts:** Soviet satellite Sputnik, United States · **What happens:** shock, set up, race, land · **To what, where:** United States, 1957, NASA, 1958, Soviet Union, 1969

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★» 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 satellite Sputnik, United States), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:086-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains.lesson:21
# text = The Soviet satellite Sputnik in 1957 shocked the United States, which set up NASA in 1958 and raced the Soviet Union to the Moon, landing there in 1969.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 086-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains.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): R5-strong ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
2	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	satellite	satellite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Sputnik	Sputnik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1957	1957	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
7	shocked	shock	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	United	United	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	amod	_	_
10	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	NASA	NASA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1958	1958	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	raced	race	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	landing	land	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	1969	1969	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	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 | **shock** | past | Soviet satellite Sputnik | the United States |  | 1957 |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus state=Experiencer |
| 2 | **set up** | past | the United States | NASA |  | 1958 |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nasa=Theme in 1958=Destination |
| 3 | **race** | past | the United States *not said here* | the Soviet Union |  |  |  | to the Moon *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent union=Theme to moon=Result |
| 4 | **land** | gerund | the United States *not said here* |  |  | 1969; there |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in 1969=Destination |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×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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