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title: For thousands of years people could only look up; in the last 80 yea… — The history of space exploration · tree and pragmatics
description: For thousands of years people could only look up; in the last 80 years we have sent machines, animals and people into space. Who acts: people, we. A sentence of the lesson «The history of space exploration» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The history of space exploration, sentence 0

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For thousands of years people could only look up; in the last 80 years we have sent machines, animals and people into space.

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**Who acts:** people, we · **What happens:** look up, send · **To what, where:** machines, space

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The history of space exploration» 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 (people, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:029-the-history-of-space-exploration.lesson:0
# text = For thousands of years people could only look up; in the last 80 years we have sent machines, animals and people into space.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 029-the-history-of-space-exploration.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
19	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **look up** | could | people |  |  |  |  | for thousands of years | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for thousand=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | present · perfect | we | machines and animals and people |  | space | year |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent machine=Theme |

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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:029-the-history-of-space-exploration.lesson:0`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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