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description: When the Victoria returned, the crew's diaries were one day behind the calendar, because sailing west around the world they had seen one sunrise fewer. Who acts: Victoria, diaries. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there» of the history course of 
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# Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there, sentence 12

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When the Victoria returned, the crew's diaries were one day behind the calendar, because sailing west around the world they had seen one sunrise fewer.

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**Who acts:** Victoria, diaries · **What happens:** return, be, sail, see · **To what, where:** one day, calendar, world

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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 (Victoria, diaries), 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:12
# text = When the Victoria returned, the crew's diaries were one day behind the calendar, because sailing west around the world they had seen one sunrise fewer.
# 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): no change
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Victoria	Victoria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	diaries	diary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
18	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
19	west	west	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	around	around	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **return** | past | the Victoria |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the crew's diaries | one day |  | the calendar |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sail** | gerund | diaries *= diary* *not said here* |  |  | the world |  | west *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around world=Trajectory |
| 4 | **see** | past · perfect | diaries *= diary* |  |  |  | sunrise |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:12`.

**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): no change. **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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