--- title: On 4 October 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first art… — The history of space exploration · tree and pragmatics description: On 4 October 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite (a machine people put in orbit round Earth), a metal ball that beeped radio signals as it orbited. Who acts: Soviet Union, machine people, metal ball. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soviet Union, machine people, metal ball), 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:6 # text = On 4 October 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite (a machine people put in orbit round Earth), a metal ball that beeped radio signals as it orbited. # 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 ×2 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 October October PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 1957 1957 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 flat _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Soviet Soviet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Union Union PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 launched launch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Sputnik Sputnik PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 flat _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 amod _ _ 14 artificial artificial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 satellite satellite NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 orbit orbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 round round ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 beeped beep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 radio radio NOUN NN _ 33 compound _ _ 33 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 orbited orbit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **launch** | past | the Soviet Union | Sputnik | | | october | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sputnik=Theme | | 2 | **put** | past | a machine people | the first artificial satellite *not said here* | | orbit | | round Earth | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent satellite=Theme in orbit=Destination | | 3 | **beep** | past | a metal ball | radio signals | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location signal=Theme | | 4 | **orbit** | past · passive | | rocket | | | | | tree rules | 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:6`. **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 ×2. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/29-the-history-of-space-exploration/5/) - next →: [The history of space exploration, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/29-the-history-of-space-exploration/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/29-the-history-of-space-exploration/)