--- title: For thousands of years Canada has been home to First Nations and Inu… — Canada: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: For thousands of years Canada has been home to First Nations and Inuit peoples, with many languages and ways of life; later the Métis, of mixed First Nations and European roots, grew up in the fur trade, and all three are still a big part of the country today. Who acts: Canada, Métis, three. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Canada, Métis, three), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:039-canada-a-short-story.lesson:0 # text = For thousands of years Canada has been home to First Nations and Inuit peoples, with many languages and ways of life; later the Métis, of mixed First Nations and European roots, grew up in the fur trade, and all three are still a big part of the country today. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 039-canada-a-short-story.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 cop _ _ 8 home home ADV RB _ 36 parataxis _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 First first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 11 Nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 Inuit inuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Métis Métis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ _ 30 First First ADJ NNP Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 31 amod _ _ 31 Nations Nation PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 36 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 37 up up ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=45:punct 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 44 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 45 det:predet _ _ 45 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 50 nsubj _ _ 46 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 47 still still ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ _ 54 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl:unmarked _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present · perfect | Canada | | | | | to First Nations and Inuit peoples and many languages and ways of life; home *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mix** | participle | | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **grow up** | past | the Métis of mixed First Nations and European roots | | | the fur trade | | for thousands of years | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in trade=Location | | 4 | **is a** | present | all three | a big part | | | still; today | of the country | tree rules | 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. **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:039-canada-a-short-story.lesson:0`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [The United States: a short story, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/17/) - next →: [Canada: a short story, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/)