--- title: Crossing the Pacific took months; sailors ate sawdust and leather, a… — Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the pe… · tree and pragmatics description: Crossing the Pacific took months; sailors ate sawdust and leather, and many died of scurvy, an illness caused by a lack of fresh fruit and vegetables. Who acts: Crossing, sailors, many. 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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 (Crossing, sailors, many), 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:7 # text = Crossing the Pacific took months; sailors ate sawdust and leather, and many died of scurvy, an illness caused by a lack of fresh fruit and vegetables. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Crossing cross VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Pacific Pacific PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 9 sawdust sawdust NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 leather leather NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 nsubj _ _ 15 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 scurvy scurvy NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 21 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 lack lack NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 vegetables vegetable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cross** | gerund | | the Pacific | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pacific=Patient | | 2 | **take** | past | Crossing | | | | month | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **eat** | past | sailors | sawdust and leather | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sawdust=Patient | | 4 | **die** | past | many | | | | | of scurvy | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of scurvy=Causer | | 5 | **cause** | participle | | a illness *not said here* | | | | by a lack of fresh fruit and vegetables | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | | 6 | **lack** | | | fresh fruit and vegetables | | | | | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient | 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:027-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there.lesson:7`. **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): 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. 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