--- title: Polynesian navigators sailed double canoes across the Pacific, readi… — Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses… · tree and pragmatics description: Polynesian navigators sailed double canoes across the Pacific, reading stars, waves, winds and birds, and reached Aotearoa New Zealand about 700 to 800 years ago. Who acts: Polynesian navigators. 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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 (Polynesian navigators), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.lesson:15 # text = Polynesian navigators sailed double canoes across the Pacific, reading stars, waves, winds and birds, and reached Aotearoa New Zealand about 700 to 800 years ago. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Polynesian polynesian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 navigators navigator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sailed sail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 double double ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 canoes canoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 across across ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Pacific Pacific PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 11 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 winds wind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 21 Aotearoa Aotearoa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 flat _ _ 23 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 700 700 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:case 27 800 800 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl:unmarked 29 ago ago ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sail** | past | Polynesian navigators | double canoes | | the Pacific | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme canoe=Trajectory | | 2 | **read** | gerund | Polynesian navigators *not said here* | stars and waves and winds and birds | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Topic | | 3 | **reach** | past | Polynesian navigators *not said here* | Aotearoa New Zealand | | | | ago *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent zealand=Theme | 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:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.lesson:15`. **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 ×4, 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. 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