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title: Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space on 12 April 1961, and… — The history of space exploration · tree and pragmatics
description: Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space on 12 April 1961, and Valentina Tereshkova the first woman in 1963, both from the Soviet Union. Who acts: Yuri. 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 prag
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# The history of space exploration, sentence 8

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Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space on 12 April 1961, and Valentina Tereshkova the first woman in 1963, both from the Soviet Union.

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**Who acts:** Yuri · **What happens:** become · **To what, where:** first person, Soviet Union

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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 (Yuri), 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:8
# text = Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space on 12 April 1961, and Valentina Tereshkova the first woman in 1963, both from the Soviet Union.
# 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	Yuri	Yuri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Gagarin	Gagarin	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	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	1961	1961	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	Valentina	Valentina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Tereshkova	Tereshkova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	1963	1963	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	1	cc:preconj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
28	.	.	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 | Yuri and Valentina Tereshkova | the first person in space |  | the Soviet Union | april |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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:8`.

**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/).

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