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title: Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space in 1961. — Rockets, satellites and astronauts · tree and pragmatics
description: Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space in 1961. Who acts: Yuri. 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 14

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Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space in 1961.

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**Who acts:** Yuri · **What happens:** become · **To what, where:** first person, 1961

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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: who acts (Yuri), 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:14
# text = Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space in 1961.
# 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	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	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1961	1961	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
11	.	.	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 | **become** | past | Yuri | the first person in space |  |  |  | in 1961 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1961=Result |

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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:14`.

**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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