--- title: Tama from New Zealand says his koro, Māori for grandfather, told him… — Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses… · tree and pragmatics description: Tama from New Zealand says his koro, Māori for grandfather, told him their tīpuna, the ancestors, sailed there by the stars: «chur», a Kiwi way to say cheers. Who acts: Tama, koro, tīpuna, cheers. 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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 (Tama, koro, tīpuna, cheers), 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:8 # text = Tama from New Zealand says his koro, Māori for grandfather, told him their tīpuna, the ancestors, sailed there by the stars: «chur», a Kiwi way to say cheers. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Tama Tama PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 New New ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 koro koro NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Māori Māori PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 grandfather grandfather NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 13 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 tīpuna tīpuna NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 ancestors ancestor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 sailed sail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 chur chur X NN _ 16 appos _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 Kiwi Kiwi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl _ _ 36 cheers cheer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Tama from New Zealand | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Tama's koro | | Tama | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **sail** | past | people's tīpuna | | | there | | by the stars | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | cheers | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:8`. **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 ×2, 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. 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