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title: Columbus first landed in the Bahamas in 1492 and never reached the l… — Explorers, scientists and inventors · tree and pragmatics
description: Columbus first landed in the Bahamas in 1492 and never reached the land that is now the United States. Who acts: Columbus, land. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers, scientists and inventors» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Explorers, scientists and inventors, sentence 14

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Columbus first landed in the Bahamas in 1492 and never reached the land that is now the United States.

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**Who acts:** Columbus, land · **What happens:** land, not reach, be · **To what, where:** Bahamas, land, United States

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers, scientists and inventors» of the myths 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 (Columbus, land), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.lesson:14
# text = Columbus first landed in the Bahamas in 1492 and never reached the land that is now the United States.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.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): no change
1	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
3	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Bahamas	Bahamas	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1492	1492	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	United	United	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	acl:relcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | past | Columbus |  |  | the Bahamas |  | in 1492; first *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bahamas=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **reach** | past | Columbus *not said here* | the land |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent land=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the land | the United States |  |  | now |  | tree rules |

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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:myths:020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.lesson:14`.

**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): no change. **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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