--- title: For centuries Europeans searched for a sea route north of Canada to… — The Arctic and Antarctica · tree and pragmatics description: For centuries Europeans searched for a sea route north of Canada to Asia; Sir John Franklin's expedition of 1845 vanished with all 129 men, and Roald Amundsen first sailed the Northwest Passage between 1903 and 1906. Who acts: Europeans, expedition, Roald. A sentence of the lesson «The Arctic and An --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/17/) [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/) / [The Arctic and Antarctica](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/) / 17 # The Arctic and Antarctica, sentence 17 For centuries Europeans searched for a sea route north of Canada to Asia; Sir John Franklin's expedition of 1845 vanished with all 129 men, and Roald Amundsen first sailed the Northwest Passage between 1903 and 1906. **Who acts:** Europeans, expedition, Roald · **What happens:** search, vanish, sail · **To what, where:** sea route, Northwest Passage This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic and Antarctica» 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 (Europeans, expedition, Roald), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:015-the-arctic-and-antarctica.lesson:17 # text = For centuries Europeans searched for a sea route north of Canada to Asia; Sir John Franklin's expedition of 1845 vanished with all 129 men, and Roald Amundsen first sailed the Northwest Passage between 1903 and 1906. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 015-the-arctic-and-antarctica.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 3 Europeans European PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 4 searched search VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 7 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 route route NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound 9 north north ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 flat _ _ 16 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 flat _ _ 17 Franklin Franklin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 expedition expedition NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 1845 1845 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nmod _ _ 22 vanished vanish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 23 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 25 129 129 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 Roald Roald PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 Amundsen Amundsen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ _ 31 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 32 advmod _ _ 32 sailed sail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 Northwest Northwest PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 Passage Passage PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 36 between between ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 1903 1903 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 1906 1906 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **search** | past | Europeans | a sea route | | | century | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **vanish** | past | Sir John Franklin's expedition of 1845 | | | | | with all 129 men | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sail** | past | Roald | the Northwest Passage | | | | between 1903; first *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=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:015-the-arctic-and-antarctica.lesson:17`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [The Arctic and Antarctica, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/16/) - next →: [The Arctic and Antarctica, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/)