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title: In 1995 Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz found 51 Pegasi b, the first… — Exoplanets and the search for life · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1995 Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz found 51 Pegasi b, the first planet known around a Sun-like star, and won a Nobel Prize for it in 2019. Who acts: Michel. A sentence of the lesson «Exoplanets and the search for life» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Exoplanets and the search for life, sentence 6

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In 1995 Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz found 51 Pegasi b, the first planet known around a Sun-like star, and won a Nobel Prize for it in 2019.

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**Who acts:** Michel · **What happens:** find, know, win · **To what, where:** 51 b, 1995, first planet, Sun like star, Nobel Prize, 2019

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Exoplanets and the search for life» of the space 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 (Michel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:026-exoplanets-and-the-search-for-life.lesson:6
# text = In 1995 Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz found 51 Pegasi b, the first planet known around a Sun-like star, and won a Nobel Prize for it in 2019.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 026-exoplanets-and-the-search-for-life.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	1995	1995	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
3	Michel	Michel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Didier	Didier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	Queloz	Queloz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	51	51	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	Pegasi	Pegasi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	b	B	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	around	around	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Nobel	Nobel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Prize	Prize	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	2019	2019	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **find** | past | Michel and Didier | 51 b |  | 1995 |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent b=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | the first planet *not said here* |  | a Sun like star |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **win** | past | Michel and Didier *not said here* | a Nobel Prize |  | 2019 |  | for star | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent prize=Theme for it=Beneficiary |

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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:space:026-exoplanets-and-the-search-for-life.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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