--- title: Australia and New Zealand: a short story — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Australia and New Zealand: a short story», a lesson of the history course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In 1788 eleven British ships, the First Fleet, brought convicts and soldiers to Sydney Cove; many convicts had been sent for smal --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/) [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/) / Australia and New Zealand: a short story # Australia and New Zealand: a short story Lesson 40 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/1/) — In 1788 eleven British ships, the First Fleet, brought convicts and soldiers to Sydney Cove; many convicts had been sent for small crimes like stealing food, and many later became free farmers. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/2/) — So the same day, 26 January, is Australia Day to some people and Invasion Day to many Aboriginal people, a bit like one event looking very different from two ends of the same street. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/3/) — Across the sea the Māori had arrived in Aotearoa, New Zealand, from Polynesia about 700 years ago, and in 1840 their chiefs and the British signed the Treaty of Waitangi, whose English and Māori versions said different things. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/5/) — Aboriginal Australians have lived in Australia for at least 50,000 years, with hundreds of languages, and their stories of the Dreaming explain the land, the animals and the law. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/6/) — Aboriginal rock art is among the oldest in the world, and songlines are songs that carry the map of the land and its stories. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/7/) — In 1788 the First Fleet of eleven ships brought British convicts and soldiers to Sydney Cove to start a prison colony. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/8/) — Australia Day on 26 January marks the arrival of the First Fleet, and many Aboriginal people call it Invasion Day. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/9/) — Over about 80 years Britain sent around 160,000 convicts to Australia, many for small crimes such as stealing food, and many later became free farmers and townspeople. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/10/) — Gold was found in Australia in the 1850s and people rushed there from all over the world, and in 1901 the colonies joined as the Commonwealth of Australia. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/11/) — For many years Aboriginal children were taken from their families; they are called the Stolen Generations, and in 2008 the Prime Minister formally apologised. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/12/) — The Māori arrived in Aotearoa, New Zealand, from Polynesia about 700 years ago and are famous for carving, tattooing, the haka and their navigation. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/13/) — In 1840 Māori chiefs and the British signed the Treaty of Waitangi; the English and Māori versions said different things, which led to disputes and wars. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/14/) — New Zealand still works to keep the treaty's promises, and Waitangi Day, 6 February, is its national day. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/15/) — New Zealand gave women the vote in 1893, before any other self-governing country. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/16/) — In 1953 Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal were the first to climb Mount Everest. - ← previous: [Canada: a short story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/) - next →: [Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/41-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus/) - ↑ back to [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/)