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title: In 1953 Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepa… — Australia and New Zealand: a short story · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1953 Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal were the first to climb Mount Everest. Who acts: Edmund. A sentence of the lesson «Australia and New Zealand: a short story» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Australia and New Zealand: a short story, sentence 16

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In 1953 Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal were the first to climb Mount Everest.

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**Who acts:** Edmund · **What happens:** be, climb · **To what, where:** 1953, Mount Everest

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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 (Edmund), 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:16
# text = In 1953 Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal were the first to climb Mount Everest.
# 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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1953	1953	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
3	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	Hillary	Hillary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
7	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Tenzing	Tenzing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	Norgay	Norgay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Nepal	Nepal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	Mount	mount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Everest	everest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is** | past | Edmund from New Zealand and Tenzing |  |  | 1953 |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **climb** | to-infinitive |  | Mount Everest |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location everest=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:16`.

**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. **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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