--- title: Christopher Columbus had another plan: sail west to reach Asia; he k… — Explorers: around Africa and Columbus · tree and pragmatics description: Christopher Columbus had another plan: sail west to reach Asia; he knew the Earth was round, like everyone educated, but he thought it was much smaller than it is, a bit like setting off to walk to the next town and finding a whole country in the way. Who acts: Christopher, Earth. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christopher, Earth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:026-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus.lesson:2 # text = Christopher Columbus had another plan: sail west to reach Asia; he knew the Earth was round, like everyone educated, but he thought it was much smaller than it is, a bit like setting off to walk to the next town and finding a whole country in the way. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 026-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus.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 1 Christopher Christopher PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Columbus Columbus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 5 det _ _ 5 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 sail sail NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 west west ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 11 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 like like SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 22 nsubj _ _ 22 educated educated ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 much much ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 ccomp _ _ 31 than than SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 like like SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 38 setting set VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 ccomp _ _ 39 off off ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 finding find VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 conj _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 51 in in ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Christopher | another plan and sail | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient | | 2 | **reach** | to-infinitive | Christopher *not said here* | Asia | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent asia=Theme | | 3 | **know** | past | Christopher | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | past | the Earth | | | | | round *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Christopher | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | Earth | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **set off** | gerund | | a bit | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **walk** | to-infinitive | | | | | | to the next town *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to town=Result | | 9 | **find** | gerund | | a whole country | | the way | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Topic | 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:history:026-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus.lesson:2`. **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. **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: [Explorers: around Africa and Columbus, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/1/) - next →: [Explorers: around Africa and Columbus, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/)