--- title: The haka is a Māori ceremonial dance with chanting, stamping and fie… — Dances of the world and dancing at parties · tree and pragmatics description: The haka is a Māori ceremonial dance with chanting, stamping and fierce faces; it is used for welcomes, celebrations, funerals and challenges, not only before battles. Who acts: haka. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (haka), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.lesson:8 # text = The haka is a Māori ceremonial dance with chanting, stamping and fierce faces; it is used for welcomes, celebrations, funerals and challenges, not only before battles. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 haka haka NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 Māori Māori ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 6 ceremonial ceremonial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 chanting chanting NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 stamping stamping NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:acl:relcl 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 welcomes welcome NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 celebrations celebration NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 funerals funeral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 challenges challenge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 29 only only ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 before before ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 battles battle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **is a** | present | the haka | a Māori ceremonial dance | | | | with chanting and stamping and fierce faces | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | present · passive | | haka | | | | for welcomes and celebrations and funerals and challenges and battles | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for welcome=Eventuality | 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](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:arts:030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.lesson:8`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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