Explorers: Cook and the Pacific, sentence 1
In 1642 the Dutch sailor Abel Tasman reached Tasmania and New Zealand, and in the 1760s and 1770s the British captain James Cook made three great voyages and mapped coasts so well that some of his charts were used for centuries.
Who acts: Dutch sailor, British captain, Zealand · What happens: reach, make, map, use, chart · To what, where: Tasmania, 1642, three great voyages, 1760s, some
This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Cook and the Pacific» of the history 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 (Dutch sailor, British captain, Zealand), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1642 | case |
| 2 | 1642 | 1642 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 reached | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sailor | det |
| 4 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sailor | amod |
| 5 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | Abel | Abel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | nsubj |
| 7 | Tasman | Tasman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Abel | flat |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Tasmania | Tasmania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Zealand | cc |
| 11 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Zealand | flat |
| 12 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Tasmania | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 made | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 1760s | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 1760s | det |
| 17 | 1760s | 1760 | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 made | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 1770s | cc |
| 19 | 1770s | 1770 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 17 1760s | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 captain | det |
| 21 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 captain | amod |
| 22 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | nsubj |
| 23 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Cook | flat |
| 24 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 made | nsubj |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reached | conj |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 voyages | nummod |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 voyages | amod |
| 28 | voyages | voyage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 made | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 coasts | cc |
| 30 | mapped | map | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 made | conj |
| 31 | coasts | coast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 voyages | conj |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 well | advmod |
| 33 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 mapped | advmod |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 used | mark |
| 35 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 used | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 charts | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 charts | nmod:poss |
| 38 | charts | chart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 some | nmod |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 used | aux:pass |
| 40 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 made | advcl |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 centuries | case |
| 42 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 used | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the Dutch sailor | Tasmania and New Zealand | 1642 | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tasmania=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | past | the British captain | three great voyages and coasts | the 1760s and 1770s | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=Product | |||
| 3 | map | past | the British captain not said here | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | use | past · passive | some | century | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | chart | Zealand | nom chart «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:history:028-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific.lesson:1.
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 ×4. 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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