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title: Think of a new neighbour moving in and telling everyone he found the… — Explorers: Cook and the Pacific · tree and pragmatics
description: Think of a new neighbour moving in and telling everyone he found the street: when Cook claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain in 1770, Aboriginal people had lived there for more than 50,000 years. Who acts: you, new neighbour, Cook, Aboriginal people. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Co
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# Explorers: Cook and the Pacific, sentence 3

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Think of a new neighbour moving in and telling everyone he found the street: when Cook claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain in 1770, Aboriginal people had lived there for more than 50,000 years.

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**Who acts:** you, new neighbour, Cook, Aboriginal people · **What happens:** think, move in, tell, find, claim, live · **To what, where:** everyone, street, east coast, 1770 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, new neighbour, 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:3
# text = Think of a new neighbour moving in and telling everyone he found the street: when Cook claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain in 1770, Aboriginal people had lived there for more than 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): no change
1	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	obj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	east	east	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	1770	1770	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	Aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
33	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	37	advmod	_	_
36	than	than	ADP	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	50,000	50000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of a new neighbour | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **move in** | gerund | a new neighbour *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | a new neighbour *not said here* | everyone |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **find** | past | Cook | the street |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Topic |
| 5 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | Cook | the east coast of Australia |  | 1770 |  | for Britain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent coast=Topic |
| 6 | **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:3`.

**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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