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title: A famous drawing of the slave ship Brookes in 1788 showed this and h… — The Atlantic routes and the slave trade · tree and pragmatics
description: A famous drawing of the slave ship Brookes in 1788 showed this and helped turn British opinion against the trade. Who acts: famous drawing, slave ship. A sentence of the lesson «The Atlantic routes and the slave trade» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# The Atlantic routes and the slave trade, sentence 5

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A famous drawing of the slave ship Brookes in 1788 showed this and helped turn British opinion against the trade.

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**Who acts:** famous drawing, slave ship · **What happens:** show, help, turn, draw · **To what, where:** this, British opinion

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Atlantic routes and the slave trade» 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 (famous drawing, slave ship), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:030-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade.lesson:5
# text = A famous drawing of the slave ship Brookes in 1788 showed this and helped turn British opinion against the trade.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 030-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade.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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	drawing	drawing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
7	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	Brookes	Brookes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1788	1788	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
11	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
16	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	against	against	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **show** | past | a famous drawing of the slave ship in 1788 | this |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient |
| 2 | **help** | past | a famous drawing of the slave ship in 1788 *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | infinitive | a famous drawing of the slave ship in 1788 *not said here* | British opinion |  |  |  | against the trade | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme |
| 4 | **draw** |  | the slave ship |  |  |  |  |  | nom drawing «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:030-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade.lesson:5`.

**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 ×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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