--- title: Canada has been home for thousands of years to First Nations and Inu… — Canada: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: Canada has been home for thousands of years to First Nations and Inuit peoples, with many languages and ways of life, and the Métis people, of mixed First Nations and European roots, grew up later during the fur trade. Who acts: Canada, Métis people. 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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 people), 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:5 # text = Canada has been home for thousands of years to First Nations and Inuit peoples, with many languages and ways of life, and the Métis people, of mixed First Nations and European roots, grew up later during the fur trade. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 cop _ _ 4 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nmod 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 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 nmod _ _ 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 _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 Métis Métis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 amod _ _ 31 First First ADJ NNP Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 32 amod _ _ 32 Nations Nation PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 37 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 38 up up ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 37 advmod _ _ 40 during during ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 a** | present · perfect | Canada | home | | | | for thousands of years to First Nations and Inuit peoples and many languages and ways of life | tree rules | | 2 | **mix** | participle | | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **grow up** | past | the Métis people of mixed First Nations and European roots | | | | during the fur trade | late *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:5`. **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, 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: [Canada: a short story, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/4/) - next →: [Canada: a short story, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/)