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title: Helen Sharman became the first Briton in space in 1991, and Tim Peak… — The history of space exploration · tree and pragmatics
description: Helen Sharman became the first Briton in space in 1991, and Tim Peake the first British ESA astronaut to visit the space station in 2015-2016. Who acts: Helen. 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 pr
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# The history of space exploration, sentence 14

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Helen Sharman became the first Briton in space in 1991, and Tim Peake the first British ESA astronaut to visit the space station in 2015-2016.

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**Who acts:** Helen · **What happens:** become, visit · **To what, where:** 1991, space station, 2015-2016

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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 (Helen), 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:14
# text = Helen Sharman became the first Briton in space in 1991, and Tim Peake the first British ESA astronaut to visit the space station in 2015-2016.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Helen	Helen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Sharman	Sharman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	Briton	Briton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Tim	Tim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	Peake	Peake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
17	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	ESA	esa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	astronaut	astronaut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	2015-2016	2015-2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **become** | past | Helen |  |  |  |  | in 1991 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1991=Result |
| 2 | **visit** | to-infinitive | Helen *not said here* | the space station |  | 2015-2016 |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent station=Co-Agent |

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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: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): R8-pos-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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