--- title: The Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840 between the British Crown and… — Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the… · tree and pragmatics description: The Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840 between the British Crown and many Māori chiefs, is New Zealand's founding document; its English and Māori versions do not say the same thing about who holds power, which has caused arguments ever since; and Māori and New Zealand Sign Language are official lang --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Irelan…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world/) / 12 # Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world, sentence 12 The Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840 between the British Crown and many Māori chiefs, is New Zealand's founding document; its English and Māori versions do not say the same thing about who holds power, which has caused arguments ever since; and Māori and New Zealand Sign Language are official languages by law, while English is used everywhere without a law naming it. **Who acts:** Treaty, English versions, same thing, Māori, law · **What happens:** sign, be, not say, hold, cause, use · **To what, where:** Treaty, 1840, founding document, same thing, power, arguments · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Treaty, English versions, same thing, Māori), 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:12 # text = The Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840 between the British Crown and many Māori chiefs, is New Zealand's founding document; its English and Māori versions do not say the same thing about who holds power, which has caused arguments ever since; and Māori and New Zealand Sign Language are official languages by law, while English is used everywhere without a law naming it. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Treaty Treaty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Waitangi Waitangi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 signed sign VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl:relcl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 1840 1840 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 9 between between ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 Crown Crown PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 Māori Māori ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 16 chiefs chief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 19 New New ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 20 compound _ _ 20 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 founding founding ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 document document NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 26 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 Māori Māori ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:conj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 29 versions version NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 30 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 parataxis _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 about about SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 38 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:advcl 39 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 42 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:ccomp 44 arguments argument NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 45 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 43 advmod _ _ 46 since since SCONJ IN _ 45 fixed _ _ 47 ; ; PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 Māori Māori PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 51 New New ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 53 Sign sign PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=54:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 54 Language language PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=49:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 55 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 cop _ _ 56 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 57 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 58 by by ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 59 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=57:obl 60 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 61 while while SCONJ IN _ 64 mark _ _ 62 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 64 nsubj _ _ 63 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 64 aux:pass _ _ 64 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 65 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 64 advmod _ _ 66 without without ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 67 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 68 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obl _ _ 69 naming name VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 68 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=64:parataxis 70 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 69 obj _ _ 71 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sign** | participle | | the Treaty of Waitangi *not said here* | | 1840 | | between the British Crown and many Māori chiefs | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in 1840=Destination | | 2 | **is a** | present | the Treaty of Waitangi | New Zealand's founding document and official languages | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | Treaty's English versions | the same thing | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 4 | **hold** | present | the same thing | power | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme | | 5 | **cause** | present · perfect | the same thing | arguments | | | ever | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition argument=Patient | | 6 | **is a** | present | Māori and Zealand Sign Language | official languages | | | | by law | tree rules | | 7 | **use** | present · passive | | English | | | | without a law; everywhere *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 8 | **name** | gerund | a law *not said here* | power | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:geography:010-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world.lesson:12`. **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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×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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