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title: Each people knew its own lands well, but far-off places were blank o… — Explorers and how the world was mapped · tree and pragmatics
description: Each people knew its own lands well, but far-off places were blank or filled with guesses. Who acts: people, far places. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers and how the world was mapped» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Explorers and how the world was mapped, sentence 1

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Each people knew its own lands well, but far-off places were blank or filled with guesses.

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**Who acts:** people, far places · **What happens:** know, be, fill · **To what, where:** own lands

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers and how the world was mapped» of the world 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 (people, far places), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:098-explorers-mapping-the-world.lesson:1
# text = Each people knew its own lands well, but far-off places were blank or filled with guesses.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 098-explorers-mapping-the-world.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	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	off	off	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	blank	blank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	guesses	guess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **know** | past | each people | world's own lands |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | far places |  |  |  |  | blank *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fill** | participle | far places *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with guesses | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with guess=Instrument |

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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:world:098-explorers-mapping-the-world.lesson:1`.

**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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