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title: Japanese probes brought back dust from the asteroids Itokawa and Ryu… — Asteroids and the asteroid belt · tree and pragmatics
description: Japanese probes brought back dust from the asteroids Itokawa and Ryugu, and NASA's OSIRIS-REx returned samples from Bennu in 2023. Who acts: Japanese probes, OSIRIS REx. A sentence of the lesson «Asteroids and the asteroid belt» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Asteroids and the asteroid belt, sentence 12

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Japanese probes brought back dust from the asteroids Itokawa and Ryugu, and NASA's OSIRIS-REx returned samples from Bennu in 2023.

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**Who acts:** Japanese probes, OSIRIS REx · **What happens:** bring back, return · **To what, where:** dust, asteroids, samples, Bennu

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Asteroids and the asteroid belt» 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 (Japanese probes, OSIRIS REx), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:009-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt.lesson:12
# text = Japanese probes brought back dust from the asteroids Itokawa and Ryugu, and NASA's OSIRIS-REx returned samples from Bennu in 2023.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 009-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt.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): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	probes	probe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
5	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	asteroids	asteroid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	Itokawa	Itokawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Ryugu	Ryugu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	NASA	NASA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	OSIRIS	OSIRIS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
18	REx	rex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
20	samples	sample	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Bennu	Bennu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | **bring back** | past | Japanese probes | dust |  | the asteroids |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent dust=Theme from asteroid=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **return** | past | NASA's OSIRIS REx | samples |  | Bennu |  | in 2023 | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent sample=Theme from bennu=Initial\_Location |

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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:009-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt.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): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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