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title: Tupaia, a navigator from Tahiti, sailed with Cook, helped guide the… — Explorers: Cook and the Pacific · tree and pragmatics
description: Tupaia, a navigator from Tahiti, sailed with Cook, helped guide the ship and helped him talk with the Māori. Who acts: Tupaia, Cook. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Cook and the Pacific» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Explorers: Cook and the Pacific, sentence 10

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Tupaia, a navigator from Tahiti, sailed with Cook, helped guide the ship and helped him talk with the Māori.

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**Who acts:** Tupaia, Cook · **What happens:** sail, help, guide, talk · **To what, where:** ship, Cook

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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 (Tupaia, Cook), 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:10
# text = Tupaia, a navigator from Tahiti, sailed with Cook, helped guide the ship and helped him talk with the Māori.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Tupaia	Tupaia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	navigator	navigator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:parataxis
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
12	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
13	guide	guide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Māori	Māori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | Tupaia |  |  |  |  | with Cook | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **help** | past | Tupaia *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **guide** | infinitive | Tupaia *not said here* | the ship |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | past | Tupaia *not said here* | Cook |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **talk** | infinitive | Cook *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the Māori | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with māori=Co-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:028-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific.lesson:10`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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