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title: In 1770 Cook landed at Botany Bay and claimed the east coast of Aust… — Explorers: Cook and the Pacific · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1770 Cook landed at Botany Bay and claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain, though Aboriginal people had lived there for over 50,000 years. Who acts: Cook, Aboriginal people. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Cook and the Pacific» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Explorers: Cook and the Pacific, sentence 11

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In 1770 Cook landed at Botany Bay and claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain, though Aboriginal people had lived there for over 50,000 years.

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**Who acts:** Cook, Aboriginal people · **What happens:** land, claim, live · **To what, where:** 1770, Botany Bay, east coast

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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 (Cook, Aboriginal people), 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:11
# text = In 1770 Cook landed at Botany Bay and claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain, though Aboriginal people had lived there for over 50,000 years.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	1770	1770	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nummod
3	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Botany	Botany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	east	east	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	Aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	over	over	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	50,000	50000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **land** | past | Cook | 1770 |  | Botany Bay |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | Cook *not said here* | the east coast of Australia |  |  |  | for Britain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent coast=Topic |
| 3 | **live** | past · perfect | Aboriginal people |  |  | there | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:11`.

**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 ×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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