Australia and New Zealand: a short story, sentence 9

Over about 80 years Britain sent around 160,000 convicts to Australia, many for small crimes such as stealing food, and many later became free farmers and townspeople.

Who acts: Britain, many small crimes, many · What happens: send around, steal, become · To what, where: 160,000 convicts, Australia, food, free farmers

This is a sentence of the lesson «Australia and New Zealand: a short story» 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 (Britain, many small crimes, many), 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	Over	over	ADP	_	4 years	case
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 80	advmod
3	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sent	obl:unmarked
5	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sent	nsubj
6	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	around	around	ADV	_	8 160,000	advmod
8	160,000	160,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 convicts	nummod
9	convicts	convict	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sent	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Australia	case
11	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 crimes	punct
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 crimes	amod
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 crimes	case
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 crimes	amod
16	crimes	crime	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 convicts	conj
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	19 stealing	mark
18	as	as	ADP	_	17 such	fixed
19	stealing	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 crimes	acl:relcl
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stealing	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 became	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 became	cc
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 became	nsubj
24	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 became	advmod
25	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sent	conj
26	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 farmers	amod
27	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 became	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 townspeople	cc
29	townspeople	townspeople	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 farmers	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sent	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	send around	past	Britain	160,000 convicts and many small crimes	Australia	year		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent convict=Theme to australia=Destination
2	steal	gerund	many small crimes not said here	food				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme
3	become	past	many	free farmers and townspeople			late property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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:040-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story.lesson:9.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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