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title: The Māori are the first people of New Zealand, and the New Zealand r… — Dances of the world and dancing at parties · tree and pragmatics
description: The Māori are the first people of New Zealand, and the New Zealand rugby team performs a haka before matches. Who acts: Māori, Zealand rugby team. A sentence of the lesson «Dances of the world and dancing at parties» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Dances of the world and dancing at parties, sentence 9

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The Māori are the first people of New Zealand, and the New Zealand rugby team performs a haka before matches.

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**Who acts:** Māori, Zealand rugby team · **What happens:** be, perform · **To what, where:** first people, haka

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dances of the world and dancing at parties» of the arts 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 (Māori, Zealand rugby team), 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:9
# text = The Māori are the first people of New Zealand, and the New Zealand rugby team performs a haka before matches.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Māori	Māori	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
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	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	performs	perform	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	haka	haka	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	matches	match	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Māori | the first people |  |  |  | of New Zealand | tree rules |
| 2 | **perform** | present | the Zealand rugby team | a haka |  |  | before matches |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haka=Theme |

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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:arts:030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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