The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters, sentence 15
In caves such as Lascaux in France and Altamira in Spain people painted horses, bulls and deer with colours made from earth and charcoal, and some cave paintings are over 30,000 years old.
Who acts: people, cave paintings · What happens: paint, make, be · To what, where: horses, caves, colours, earth
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 (people, cave paintings), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 caves | case |
| 2 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 painted | obl |
| 3 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 5 Lascaux | case |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 such | fixed |
| 5 | Lascaux | Lascaux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 caves | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 France | case |
| 7 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Lascaux | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Altamira | cc |
| 9 | Altamira | Altamira | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 France | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 11 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Altamira | nmod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 painted | nsubj |
| 13 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 painted | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bulls | punct |
| 16 | bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 horses | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 deer | cc |
| 18 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 horses | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 colours | case |
| 20 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 painted | obl |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 colours | acl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 earth | case |
| 23 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 charcoal | cc |
| 25 | charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 earth | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 old | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 old | cc |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 paintings | det |
| 29 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 paintings | compound |
| 30 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 old | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 old | cop |
| 32 | over | over | ADV | _ | 33 30,000 | advmod |
| 33 | 30,000 | 30,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 years | nummod |
| 34 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 old | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 painted | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past | people | horses and bulls and deer | caves such Lascaux in France and Altamira Spain | with colours | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme in cave=Destination | ||
| 2 | make | participle | colours not said here | earth and charcoal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from earth=Material | ||||
| 3 | is | present | some cave paintings | year | old property | tree rules |
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:15.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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.
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