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title: James Cook, a British naval captain, made three great voyages in the… — Explorers: Cook and the Pacific · tree and pragmatics
description: James Cook, a British naval captain, made three great voyages in the 1760s and 1770s, mapping New Zealand, the east coast of Australia and many Pacific islands. Who acts: James Cook. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Cook and the Pacific» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Explorers: Cook and the Pacific, sentence 7

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James Cook, a British naval captain, made three great voyages in the 1760s and 1770s, mapping New Zealand, the east coast of Australia and many Pacific islands.

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**Who acts:** James Cook · **What happens:** make, map · **To what, where:** three great voyages, 1760s, New Zealand

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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 (James Cook), 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:7
# text = James Cook, a British naval captain, made three great voyages in the 1760s and 1770s, mapping New Zealand, the east coast of Australia and many Pacific islands.
# 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	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	naval	naval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	voyages	voyage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	1760s	1760	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	1770s	1770	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	mapping	map	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
20	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	east	east	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **make** | past | James Cook | three great voyages |  | the 1760s and 1770s |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=Product |
| 2 | **map** | gerund | James Cook *not said here* | New Zealand |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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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