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title: Explorers travelled into the unknown and brought back descriptions,… — Explorers and how the world was mapped · tree and pragmatics
description: Explorers travelled into the unknown and brought back descriptions, so mapmakers could fill in the gaps bit by bit. Who acts: Explorers, mapmakers. 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 pragmati
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# Explorers and how the world was mapped, sentence 2

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Explorers travelled into the unknown and brought back descriptions, so mapmakers could fill in the gaps bit by bit.

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**Who acts:** Explorers, mapmakers · **What happens:** travel, bring back, fill in · **To what, where:** unknown, descriptions, gaps bit

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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 (Explorers, mapmakers), 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:2
# text = Explorers travelled into the unknown and brought back descriptions, so mapmakers could fill in the gaps bit by bit.
# 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	Explorers	explorer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	descriptions	description	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	mapmakers	mapmaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det
17	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	compound	_	_
18	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **travel** | past | Explorers |  |  | the unknown |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into unknown=Destination |
| 2 | **bring back** | past | Explorers *not said here* | descriptions |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent description=Theme |
| 3 | **fill in** | could | mapmakers | gaps bit |  |  |  | by bit | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:2`.

**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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