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title: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have lived in Australi… — Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have lived in Australia for at least 50,000 years, and British colonisation from 1788 brought disease, violence and the taking of their land. Who acts: Aboriginal, British colonisation. A sentence of the lesson «Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland an
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# Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world, sentence 10

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have lived in Australia for at least 50,000 years, and British colonisation from 1788 brought disease, violence and the taking of their land.

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**Who acts:** Aboriginal, British colonisation · **What happens:** live, bring, take · **To what, where:** Australia, disease, land

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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 (Aboriginal, British colonisation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:010-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world.lesson:10
# text = Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have lived in Australia for at least 50,000 years, and British colonisation from 1788 brought disease, violence and the taking of their land.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 010-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Aboriginal	aboriginal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	Torres	Torres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Strait	Strait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Islander	Islander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	nmod	_	_
14	50,000	50000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	colonisation	colonisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	1788	1788	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl
22	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	taking	taking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present · perfect | Aboriginal and Strait Islander peoples |  |  | Australia | year |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in australia=Location |
| 2 | **bring** | past | British colonisation from 1788 | disease and violence and the taking of people's land |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent disease=Theme |
| 3 | **take** |  |  | people's land |  |  |  |  | nom taking «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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:geography:010-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world.lesson:10`.

**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, R6-punct-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.

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

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