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title: In 1492 Columbus sailed west hoping to reach Asia but reached island… — Explorers and how the world was mapped · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1492 Columbus sailed west hoping to reach Asia but reached islands in the Caribbean. Who acts: Columbus. 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 16

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In 1492 Columbus sailed west hoping to reach Asia but reached islands in the Caribbean.

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**Who acts:** Columbus · **What happens:** sail, hope, reach · **To what, where:** 1492, Asia, islands, Caribbean

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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 (Columbus), 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:16
# text = In 1492 Columbus sailed west hoping to reach Asia but reached islands in the Caribbean.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1492	1492	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
3	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	west	west	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
6	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
12	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Caribbean	Caribbean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **sail** | past | Columbus |  |  | 1492 |  | west *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hope** | gerund | Columbus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Columbus *not said here* | Asia |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent asia=Theme |
| 4 | **reach** | past | Columbus *not said here* | islands |  | the Caribbean |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent island=Theme |

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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:16`.

**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. **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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