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title: The first satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched in 1957. — Rockets, satellites and astronauts · tree and pragmatics
description: The first satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched in 1957. A sentence of the lesson «Rockets, satellites and astronauts» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Rockets, satellites and astronauts, sentence 13

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The first satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched in 1957.

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**What happens:** launch · **To what, where:** first satellite, 1957

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rockets, satellites and astronauts» of the world 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:071-rockets-satellites-astronauts.lesson:13
# text = The first satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched in 1957.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 071-rockets-satellites-astronauts.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	satellite	satellite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Sputnik	Sputnik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	launched	launch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1957	1957	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **launch** | past · passive |  | the first satellite |  | 1957 |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in 1957=Destination |

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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:world:071-rockets-satellites-astronauts.lesson:13`.

**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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