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title: In 1642 the Dutch sailor Abel Tasman reached Tasmania and New Zealan… — Explorers: Cook and the Pacific · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1642 the Dutch sailor Abel Tasman reached Tasmania and New Zealand, and in the 1760s and 1770s the British captain James Cook made three great voyages and mapped coasts so well that some of his charts were used for centuries. Who acts: Dutch sailor, British captain, Zealand. A sentence of the les
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# Explorers: Cook and the Pacific, sentence 1

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In 1642 the Dutch sailor Abel Tasman reached Tasmania and New Zealand, and in the 1760s and 1770s the British captain James Cook made three great voyages and mapped coasts so well that some of his charts were used for centuries.

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**Who acts:** Dutch sailor, British captain, Zealand · **What happens:** reach, make, map, use, chart · **To what, where:** Tasmania, 1642, three great voyages, 1760s, some

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Cook and the Pacific» 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 (Dutch sailor, British captain, Zealand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:028-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific.lesson:1
# text = In 1642 the Dutch sailor Abel Tasman reached Tasmania and New Zealand, and in the 1760s and 1770s the British captain James Cook made three great voyages and mapped coasts so well that some of his charts were used for centuries.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 028-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific.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 ×4
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1642	1642	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:appos
6	Abel	Abel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Tasman	Tasman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Tasmania	Tasmania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
12	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	1760s	1760	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	1770s	1770	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:appos
23	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
24	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
26	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	voyages	voyage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	mapped	map	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
31	coasts	coast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
35	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	charts	chart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
39	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **reach** | past | the Dutch sailor | Tasmania and New Zealand |  | 1642 |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tasmania=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | the British captain | three great voyages and coasts |  | the 1760s and 1770s |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=Product |
| 3 | **map** | past | the British captain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **use** | past · passive |  | some |  |  | century |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **chart** |  | Zealand |  |  |  |  |  | nom chart «communication transitive»: poss=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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**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 ×4. **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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