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title: NASA has landed rovers on Mars since 1997, and Perseverance, landing… — The history of space exploration · tree and pragmatics
description: NASA has landed rovers on Mars since 1997, and Perseverance, landing in 2021, brought the helicopter Ingenuity, which made the first powered flights on another planet. Who acts: NASA, Perseverance, helicopter. A sentence of the lesson «The history of space exploration» of the space course of Mova's 
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# The history of space exploration, sentence 16

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NASA has landed rovers on Mars since 1997, and Perseverance, landing in 2021, brought the helicopter Ingenuity, which made the first powered flights on another planet.

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**Who acts:** NASA, Perseverance, helicopter · **What happens:** land, bring, make, power · **To what, where:** rovers, Mars, 2021, helicopter, first powered flights, planet

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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 (NASA, Perseverance, helicopter), 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:16
# text = NASA has landed rovers on Mars since 1997, and Perseverance, landing in 2021, brought the helicopter Ingenuity, which made the first powered flights on another planet.
# 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 ×5, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	NASA	NASA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	landed	land	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	rovers	rover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
7	since	since	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1997	1997	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Perseverance	perseverance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	landing	land	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det
19	helicopter	helicopter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:compound
20	Ingenuity	Ingenuity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:acl:relcl
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det
25	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
26	powered	power	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	amod	_	_
27	flights	flight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	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 | **land** | present · perfect | NASA | rovers |  | Mars | since 1997 |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rover=Theme on mars=Destination |
| 2 | **land** | gerund | Perseverance *not said here* |  |  | 2021 |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in 2021=Destination |
| 3 | **bring** | past | NASA *not said here* | the helicopter |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument helicopter=Theme ingenuity=Destination |
| 4 | **make** | past | the helicopter | the first powered flights |  | another planet |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flight=Product |
| 5 | **power** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:16`.

**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 ×5, 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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