Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world, sentence 3
Every "new" land already had people: First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia for at least 50,000 years, and Māori in New Zealand, who arrived around 1250 to 1300, one of the last large lands humans settled.
Who acts: new land, Māori, humans · What happens: have, arrive, settle · To what, where: people, 1250, last large lands
This is a sentence of the lesson «Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world» of the geography 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 (new land, Māori, humans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 land | det |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 new | punct |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 land | amod |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 new | punct |
| 5 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 6 | already | already | ADV | _ | 7 had | advmod |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Nations | punct |
| 10 | First | First | ADJ | _ | 11 Nations | flat |
| 11 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 people | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Inuit | punct |
| 13 | Inuit | Inuit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Nations | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Métis | cc |
| 15 | Métis | Métis | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 Inuit | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Canada | case |
| 17 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Nations | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Aboriginal | punct |
| 19 | Aboriginal | aboriginal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 peoples | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 peoples | cc |
| 21 | Torres | Torres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Strait | compound |
| 22 | Strait | Strait | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Islander | compound |
| 23 | Islander | Islander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 peoples | compound |
| 24 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Nations | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Australia | case |
| 26 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 peoples | nmod |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 years | case |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 least | fixed |
| 29 | least | least | ADV | Degree=Sup | 30 50,000 | advmod |
| 30 | 50,000 | 50000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 years | nummod |
| 31 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Aboriginal | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Māori | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Māori | cc |
| 34 | Māori | Māori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Métis | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 Zealand | case |
| 36 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 37 Zealand | flat |
| 37 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Māori | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 arrived | punct |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 arrived | nsubj |
| 40 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 Māori | acl:relcl |
| 41 | around | around | ADP | _ | 42 1250 | case |
| 42 | 1250 | 1250 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 arrived | obl |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 1300 | case |
| 44 | 1300 | 1300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 42 1250 | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 one | punct |
| 46 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 1250 | nmod |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 lands | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 lands | det |
| 49 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 lands | amod |
| 50 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 lands | amod |
| 51 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 one | nmod |
| 52 | humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 settled | nsubj |
| 53 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 lands | acl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | every new land | people | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | Māori in New Zealand | 1250 to 1300 one of the last large lands | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around 1250=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | settle | past | humans | the last large lands not said here | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme land=Location |
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.
Licence: CC 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:geography:010-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world.lesson:3.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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.
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