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title: French explorers and settlers founded Québec in 1608 and traded furs… — Canada: a short story · tree and pragmatics
description: French explorers and settlers founded Québec in 1608 and traded furs with First Nations across the country. Who acts: French explorers. A sentence of the lesson «Canada: a short story» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Canada: a short story, sentence 6

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French explorers and settlers founded Québec in 1608 and traded furs with First Nations across the country.

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**Who acts:** French explorers · **What happens:** found, trade · **To what, where:** Québec, 1608, furs, country

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Canada: a short story» 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 (French explorers), 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:6
# text = French explorers and settlers founded Québec in 1608 and traded furs with First Nations across the country.
# 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): no change
1	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	explorers	explorer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Québec	Québec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1608	1608	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	traded	trade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	furs	fur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	First	First	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	across	across	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **found** | past | French explorers and settlers | Québec |  | 1608 |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent québec=Patient |
| 2 | **trade** | past | French explorers and settlers *not said here* | furs |  | the country |  | with First Nations | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent fur=Theme with nation=Co-Agent |

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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:039-canada-a-short-story.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): no change. **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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