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title: In 1642 the Dutch sailor Abel Tasman reached Tasmania and New Zealan… — Explorers: Cook and the Pacific · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1642 the Dutch sailor Abel Tasman reached Tasmania and New Zealand; Tasmania is named after him, and New Zealand after the Dutch region of Zeeland. Who acts: Dutch sailor. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Cook and the Pacific» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Explorers: Cook and the Pacific, sentence 6

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In 1642 the Dutch sailor Abel Tasman reached Tasmania and New Zealand; Tasmania is named after him, and New Zealand after the Dutch region of Zeeland.

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**Who acts:** Dutch sailor · **What happens:** reach, name · **To what, where:** Tasmania, 1642

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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 (Dutch sailor), 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:6
# text = In 1642 the Dutch sailor Abel Tasman reached Tasmania and New Zealand; Tasmania is named after him, and New Zealand after the Dutch region of Zeeland.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1642	1642	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	Abel	Abel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	Tasman	Tasman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Tasmania	Tasmania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
12	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	Tasmania	Tasmania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
22	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
23	after	after	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Zeeland	Zeeland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **reach** | past | the Dutch sailor | Tasmania and New Zealand and New Zealand |  | 1642 |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tasmania=Theme |
| 2 | **name** | present · passive |  | Tasmania |  |  | after Zealand; after the Dutch region of Zeeland |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:6`.

**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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