--- title: In 1608 the French founded Québec and traded furs with First Nations… — Canada: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: In 1608 the French founded Québec and traded furs with First Nations by canoe across huge distances; beaver fur for European hats was so valuable that the beaver became a symbol of Canada. Who acts: French, beaver fur, beaver. 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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 (French, beaver fur, beaver), 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:1 # text = In 1608 the French founded Québec and traded furs with First Nations by canoe across huge distances; beaver fur for European hats was so valuable that the beaver became a symbol of Canada. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1608 1608 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 founded found VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Québec Québec PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 traded trade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 furs fur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 First First PROPN NNP _ 12 amod _ _ 12 Nations Nation PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 13 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 canoe canoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 across across ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 distances distance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 19 beaver beaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 hats hat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obl 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 valuable valuable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 beaver beaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 symbol symbol NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 xcomp _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **found** | past | the French | Québec | | 1608 | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent québec=Patient | | 2 | **trade** | past | the French *not said here* | furs | | | | with First Nations; by canoe; across huge distances | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent fur=Theme with nation=Co-Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | beaver fur for European hats | | | | | valuable *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **become** | past | the beaver | a symbol of Canada | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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:1`. **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, 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: [Canada: a short story, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/0/) - next →: [Canada: a short story, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/)