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title: The voyage proved that ships could sail all the way around the Earth… — Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the pe… · tree and pragmatics
description: The voyage proved that ships could sail all the way around the Earth, and that the Earth was bigger than people had thought. Who acts: voyage, ships, Earth, people. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there» of the history course of Mova's primary s
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# Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there, sentence 11

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The voyage proved that ships could sail all the way around the Earth, and that the Earth was bigger than people had thought.

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**Who acts:** voyage, ships, Earth, people · **What happens:** prove, sail, be, think · **To what, where:** way, Earth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there» of the history 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 (voyage, ships, Earth, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:027-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there.lesson:11
# text = The voyage proved that ships could sail all the way around the Earth, and that the Earth was bigger than people had thought.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 027-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	proved	prove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj
11	around	around	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	_
21	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | past | the voyage |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **sail** | could | ships | all way |  | the Earth |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around earth=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | past | the Earth |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:history:027-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there.lesson:11`.

**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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