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title: Perseverance has sealed rock samples in tubes on Mars, but the plan… — What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond · tree and pragmatics
description: Perseverance has sealed rock samples in tubes on Mars, but the plan to bring them back to Earth has been delayed and redesigned because of cost. Who acts: Perseverance. A sentence of the lesson «What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond, sentence 12

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Perseverance has sealed rock samples in tubes on Mars, but the plan to bring them back to Earth has been delayed and redesigned because of cost.

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**Who acts:** Perseverance · **What happens:** seal, bring back, delay, redesign · **To what, where:** rock samples, tubes, samples, Earth, plan

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond» 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 (Perseverance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:030-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond.lesson:12
# text = Perseverance has sealed rock samples in tubes on Mars, but the plan to bring them back to Earth has been delayed and redesigned because of cost.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 030-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Perseverance	perseverance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sealed	seal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	samples	sample	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	tubes	tube	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	delayed	delay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	redesigned	redesign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
25	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	27	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seal** | present · perfect | Perseverance | rock samples |  | tubes on Mars |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sample=Patient |
| 2 | **bring back** | to-infinitive |  | samples *= sample* | Earth |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to earth=Destination |
| 3 | **delay** | present · perfect · passive |  | the plan |  |  |  |  | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: subject=Source |
| 4 | **redesign** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | because cost | 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:030-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond.lesson:12`.

**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): R7-rel-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/).

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