--- title: The space age began in a race between the Soviet Union and the USA:… — The history of space exploration · tree and pragmatics description: The space age began in a race between the Soviet Union and the USA: the Soviets launched the first satellite and the first person, and the Americans first landed people on the Moon. Who acts: space age, Soviets, Americans. A sentence of the lesson «The history of space exploration» of the space cour --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/29-the-history-of-space-exploration/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/) / [The history of space exploration](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/29-the-history-of-space-exploration/) / 1 # The history of space exploration, sentence 1 The space age began in a race between the Soviet Union and the USA: the Soviets launched the first satellite and the first person, and the Americans first landed people on the Moon. **Who acts:** space age, Soviets, Americans · **What happens:** begin, launch, land · **To what, where:** race, first satellite, people, Moon 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 (space age, Soviets, Americans), 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:1 # text = The space age began in a race between the Soviet Union and the USA: the Soviets launched the first satellite and the first person, and the Americans first landed people on the Moon. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 between between ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Soviet Soviet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Union Union PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Soviets Soviet PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 launched launch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 21 amod _ _ 21 satellite satellite NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 25 amod _ _ 25 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Americans American PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 30 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 31 advmod _ _ 31 landed land VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 32 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | the space age | | | a race between the Soviet Union and the USA | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **launch** | past | the Soviets | the first satellite and the first person | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satellite=Theme | | 3 | **land** | past | the Americans | people | | the Moon | | first *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme on moon=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:space:029-the-history-of-space-exploration.lesson:1`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [The history of space exploration, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/29-the-history-of-space-exploration/0/) - next →: [The history of space exploration, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/29-the-history-of-space-exploration/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/29-the-history-of-space-exploration/)