--- title: Aboriginal Australians have lived in Australia for at least 50,000 y… — Australia and New Zealand: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Aboriginal Australians. 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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 (Aboriginal Australians), 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:5 # text = 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. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Aboriginal aboriginal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 Australians australian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 lived live VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 nmod _ _ 10 50,000 50000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Dreaming dreaming NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 explain explain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=29:conj 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present · perfect | Aboriginal Australians | | | Australia | year | with hundreds of languages | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in australia=Location | | 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | Aboriginal Australians *not said here* | the land and the animals and the law | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic | 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:5`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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