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title: In 1840 Māori chiefs and the British signed the Treaty of Waitangi;… — Australia and New Zealand: a short story · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Māori chiefs, English versions, different things. A sentence of the lesson «Australia and New Zealand: a short story» of the history cou
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# Australia and New Zealand: a short story, sentence 13

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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.

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**Who acts:** Māori chiefs, English versions, different things · **What happens:** sign, say, lead · **To what, where:** Treaty, 1840, different things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Māori chiefs, English versions, different things), 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:13
# text = 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.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1840	1840	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
3	Māori	Māori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	British	British	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	signed	sign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Waitangi	Waitangi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det
15	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Māori	Māori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	disputes	dispute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sign** | past | Māori chiefs | the Treaty of Waitangi |  | 1840 |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent treaty=Theme in 1840=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the English versions | different things |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 3 | **lead** | past | different things |  |  |  |  | to disputes and wars | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to dispute=Patient |

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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:13`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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