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title: So every explorer's story has two sides: great courage and skill, an… — Explorers: Cook and the Pacific · tree and pragmatics
description: So every explorer's story has two sides: great courage and skill, and the colonies that later took land from the people already there. Who acts: story, colonies. 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
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# Explorers: Cook and the Pacific, sentence 4

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So every explorer's story has two sides: great courage and skill, and the colonies that later took land from the people already there.

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**Who acts:** story, colonies · **What happens:** have, take · **To what, where:** two sides, land

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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 (story, colonies), 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:4
# text = So every explorer's story has two sides: great courage and skill, and the colonies that later took land from the people already there.
# 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 ×1
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	explorer	explorer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	already	already	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | every explorer's story | two sides |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | past | the colonies | land |  | there |  | from the people; late *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent land=Theme from people=Initial\_Location |

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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:4`.

**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 ×1. **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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