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title: In December 2015 a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster landed upright back on Ea… — The history of space exploration · tree and pragmatics
description: In December 2015 a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster landed upright back on Earth after a launch to orbit, and reused boosters are now routine. Who acts: SpaceX Falcon booster, reused boosters. A sentence of the lesson «The history of space exploration» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# The history of space exploration, sentence 17

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In December 2015 a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster landed upright back on Earth after a launch to orbit, and reused boosters are now routine.

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**Who acts:** SpaceX Falcon booster, reused boosters · **What happens:** land, orbit, reuse, be

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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 (SpaceX Falcon booster, reused boosters), 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:17
# text = In December 2015 a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster landed upright back on Earth after a launch to orbit, and reused boosters are now routine.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	SpaceX	SpaceX	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	Falcon	falcon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
8	booster	booster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	upright	upright	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	launch	launch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	orbit	orbit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	reused	reuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	amod	_	_
22	boosters	booster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
25	routine	routine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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** | past | a SpaceX Falcon booster |  |  |  | after a launch; december | upright *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **orbit** | to-infinitive | a SpaceX Falcon booster *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn orbit-51.9.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reuse** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | reused boosters |  |  |  | now | routine *property* | 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:17`.

**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, 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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