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title: Roald Amundsen's team was the first to reach the South Pole, in 1911. — Explorers and how the world was mapped · tree and pragmatics
description: Roald Amundsen's team was the first to reach the South Pole, in 1911. Who acts: team. 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 21

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Roald Amundsen's team was the first to reach the South Pole, in 1911.

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**Who acts:** team · **What happens:** be, reach · **To what, where:** 1911, South Pole

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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 (team), 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:21
# text = Roald Amundsen's team was the first to reach the South Pole, in 1911.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Roald	Roald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Amundsen	Amundsen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1911	1911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is** | past | Roald's team |  |  | 1911 |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reach** | to-infinitive | Roald's team *not said here* | the South Pole |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent pole=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:21`.

**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): R8-pos-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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