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title: Cook was killed in Hawaii in 1779 in a fight that started over a sto… — Explorers: Cook and the Pacific · tree and pragmatics
description: Cook was killed in Hawaii in 1779 in a fight that started over a stolen boat. Who acts: fight. 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 13

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Cook was killed in Hawaii in 1779 in a fight that started over a stolen boat.

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**Who acts:** fight · **What happens:** kill, start, steal · **To what, where:** Cook, Hawaii, stolen boat

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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 (fight), 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:13
# text = Cook was killed in Hawaii in 1779 in a fight that started over a stolen boat.
# 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): no change
1	Cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1779	1779	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **kill** | past · passive |  | Cook |  | Hawaii |  | in 1779; in a fight | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **start** | past | a fight |  |  | a stolen boat |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **steal** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:13`.

**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): no change. **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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