--- title: Beaver fur was in great demand for European hats, and traders and Fi… — Canada: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: Beaver fur was in great demand for European hats, and traders and First Nations trappers travelled huge distances by canoe, so the beaver became a symbol of Canada. Who acts: Beaver fur, traders, beaver. A sentence of the lesson «Canada: a short story» of the history course of Mova's primary school --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Canada: a short story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/) / 7 # Canada: a short story, sentence 7 Beaver fur was in great demand for European hats, and traders and First Nations trappers travelled huge distances by canoe, so the beaver became a symbol of Canada. **Who acts:** Beaver fur, traders, beaver · **What happens:** be, travel, become · **To what, where:** great demand, huge distances, symbol 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 (Beaver fur, traders, 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:7 # text = Beaver fur was in great demand for European hats, and traders and First Nations trappers travelled huge distances by canoe, so 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Beaver beaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 demand demand NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 hats hat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 traders trader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 First first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 amod _ _ 15 Nations Nation PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 16 compound _ _ 16 trappers trapper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 17 travelled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 distances distance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 canoe canoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 beaver beaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 symbol symbol NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 xcomp _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17: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** | past | Beaver fur | | | great demand | | for European hats | tree rules | | 2 | **travel** | past | traders and Nations trappers | huge distances | | | | by canoe | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory | | 3 | **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: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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/6/) - next →: [Canada: a short story, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/)