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title: Gold was found in Australia in the 1850s and people rushed there fro… — Australia and New Zealand: a short story · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: people, colonies. A sentence of the lesson «Australia and New Zealand: a short story» of the history course of Mova's primary school w
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# Australia and New Zealand: a short story, sentence 10

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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.

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**Who acts:** people, colonies · **What happens:** find, rush, join · **To what, where:** Gold, Australia, world

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Australia and New Zealand: 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 (people, colonies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:040-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story.lesson:10
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 040-australia-and-new-zealand-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	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	1850s	1850	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	1901	1901	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **find** | past · passive |  | Gold |  | Australia |  | in the 1850s | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **rush** | past | people |  |  | the world; there |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from world=Trajectory |
| 3 | **join** | past | the colonies |  |  |  |  | as the Commonwealth of Australia; in 1901 | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in 1901=Theme |

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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:040-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story.lesson:10`.

**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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