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# Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there, sentence 17

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Old maps had sea monsters and blank spaces where mapmakers did not know what was there, and within about a hundred years European maps showed fairly accurate coastlines.

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**Who acts:** Old maps, mapmakers, European maps · **What happens:** have, not know, be, show · **To what, where:** sea monsters, accurate coastlines · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Old maps, mapmakers, European maps), 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:17
# text = Old maps had sea monsters and blank spaces where mapmakers did not know what was there, and within about a hundred years European maps showed fairly accurate coastlines.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	blank	blank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	spaces	space	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
10	mapmakers	mapmaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	ccomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	within	within	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det
22	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj
24	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod
26	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	accurate	accurate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	coastlines	coastline	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **have** | past | Old maps | sea monsters and blank spaces |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | mapmakers |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **show** | past | European maps | accurate coastlines |  |  | year |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent coastline=Recipient |

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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: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, 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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