--- title: In November 1957 a dog called Laika became the first animal to orbit… — The history of space exploration · tree and pragmatics description: In November 1957 a dog called Laika became the first animal to orbit Earth, but she died within hours because there was no way to bring her back. Who acts: dog, way. A sentence of the lesson «The history of space exploration» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # The history of space exploration, sentence 7 In November 1957 a dog called Laika became the first animal to orbit Earth, but she died within hours because there was no way to bring her back. **Who acts:** dog, way · **What happens:** call, become, orbit, die, be, bring back · **To what, where:** dog, first animal, Earth · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (dog, way), 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:7 # text = In November 1957 a dog called Laika became the first animal to orbit Earth, but she died within hours because there was no way to bring her back. # 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): no change 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 November November PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 3 1957 1957 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 Laika Laika PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 xcomp _ _ 8 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 11 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 xcomp _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 orbit orbit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl _ _ 14 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 within within ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 23 expl _ _ 23 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 24 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 25 det _ _ 25 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl _ _ 28 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 back back ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 30 . . 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 | **call** | participle | | a dog *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **become** | past | a dog | the first animal | | | november | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **orbit** | to-infinitive | a dog *not said here* | Earth | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **die** | past | dog | | | | hour | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **be** | past | no way | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **bring back** | to-infinitive | no way *not said here* | | Earth | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=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:7`. **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): no change. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/29-the-history-of-space-exploration/6/) - next →: [The history of space exploration, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/29-the-history-of-space-exploration/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/29-the-history-of-space-exploration/)