--- title: For many years Aboriginal children were taken from their families; t… — Australia and New Zealand: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: For many years Aboriginal children were taken from their families; they are called the Stolen Generations, and in 2008 the Prime Minister formally apologised. Who acts: Prime Minister. 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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 (Prime Minister), 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:11 # text = For many years Aboriginal children were taken from their families; they are called the Stolen Generations, and in 2008 the Prime Minister formally apologised. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 4 Aboriginal aboriginal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Stolen steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 Generations generation PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 14 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 18 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 2008 2008 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 obl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 Prime Prime ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 Minister Minister PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 formally formally ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 apologised apologise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past · passive | | Aboriginal children | | children's families | year | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from family=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **call** | present · passive | | children *= child* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **steal** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **apologise** *speech: apologize* | past | the Prime Minister | | | 2008 | | formally *property* | tree rules | 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:040-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story.lesson:11`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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. 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