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title: In New Zealand the rise of Matariki, the Pleiades, now marks a Māori… — The night sky in summer and autumn, and the sout… · tree and pragmatics
description: In New Zealand the rise of Matariki, the Pleiades, now marks a Māori New Year public holiday. Who acts: rise, Matariki. A sentence of the lesson «The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky, sentence 17

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In New Zealand the rise of Matariki, the Pleiades, now marks a Māori New Year public holiday.

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**Who acts:** rise, Matariki · **What happens:** mark, rise · **To what, where:** Year public holiday, New Zealand

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky» of the space 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 (rise, Matariki), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:021-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky.lesson:17
# text = In New Zealand the rise of Matariki, the Pleiades, now marks a Māori New Year public holiday.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 021-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	New	New	PROPN	NNP	_	3	compound	_	_
3	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Matariki	Matariki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Pleiades	pleiade	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	marks	mark	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
15	Māori	Māori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	New	New	PROPN	NNP	_	17	compound	_	_
17	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **mark** | present | the rise of Matariki | a Year public holiday |  | New Zealand | now |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent holiday=Theme in zealand=Destination |
| 2 | **rise** |  | Matariki |  |  |  |  |  | nom rise «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:space:021-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky.lesson:17`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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