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title: Canada's Indigenous peoples are the First Nations, the Inuit and the… — Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Canada's Indigenous peoples are the First Nations, the Inuit and the Métis, and for over a century many of their children were taken to residential schools, the last of which closed in 1996. Who acts: Indigenous peoples. A sentence of the lesson «Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest 
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# Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world, sentence 8

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Canada's Indigenous peoples are the First Nations, the Inuit and the Métis, and for over a century many of their children were taken to residential schools, the last of which closed in 1996.

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**Who acts:** Indigenous peoples · **What happens:** be, take, close · **To what, where:** First Nations, many, residential schools

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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 (Indigenous peoples), 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:8
# text = Canada's Indigenous peoples are the First Nations, the Inuit and the Métis, and for over a century many of their children were taken to residential schools, the last of which closed in 1996.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	Indigenous	Indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
4	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	First	First	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Inuit	Inuit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Métis	Métis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	residential	residential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:nsubj
35	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	1996	1996	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	obl	_	_
38	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | Canada's Indigenous peoples | the First Nations and the Inuit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past · passive |  | many of people's children |  | residential schools | century |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to school=Destination |
| 3 | **close** | past |  |  |  |  |  | in 1996 | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in 1996=Topic |

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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: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): R5-strong ×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.

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

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