The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters, sentence 1

The first people like us lived in Africa about 300,000 years ago, and over many thousands of years their children's children walked out and spread over the whole world.

Who acts: first people, children · What happens: live, walk out, spread · To what, where: Africa, many thousands, whole world

This is a sentence of the lesson «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history 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 (first people, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	nsubj
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 lived	mark
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 people	nmod
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Africa	case
8	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 300,000	advmod
10	300,000	300000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ago	obl:unmarked
12	ago	ago	ADV	_	6 lived	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 walked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thousands	cc
15	over	over	ADV	_	16 many	advmod
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thousands	amod
17	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 walked	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 years	case
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 thousands	nmod
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 children	nmod:poss
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 children	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 children	case
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 walked	nsubj
24	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
25	out	out	ADV	_	24 walked	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 spread	cc
27	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 walked	conj
28	over	over	ADP	_	31 world	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
30	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 world	amod
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 spread	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	the first people us		Africa	ago property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in africa=Location
2	walk out	past	people's children's children	many thousands of years		out property	vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	spread	past	people's children's children not said here		the whole world		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over world=Location

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.

Licence: CC 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:history:001-the-first-people.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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×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.

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