The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters, sentence 16

People also blew paint around their hands to leave hand outlines, called stencils, which are found all over the world, including Indonesia and Argentina.

Who acts: People, hand outlines · What happens: blow, leave, call, find, include · To what, where: paint, hands, hand outlines, stencils, world · Speech: someone speaks here

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, hand outlines), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blew	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 blew	advmod
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	obj
5	around	around	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blew	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 leave	mark
9	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 blew	advcl
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 outlines	compound
11	outlines	outline	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 leave	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 called	punct
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 outlines	acl
14	stencils	stencil	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 called	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 found	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 found	nsubj:pass
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 found	aux:pass
18	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 outlines	acl:relcl
19	all	all	ADV	_	22 world	advmod
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 world	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 world	det
22	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 found	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Indonesia	punct
24	including	include	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 Indonesia	case
25	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 world	appos
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Argentina	cc
27	Argentina	Argentina	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Indonesia	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 blew	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	blow	past	People	paint	people's hands	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent paint=Patient
2	leave	to-infinitive	People not said here	hand outlines		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outline=Theme
3	call	participle	hand outlines not said here	stencils		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find	present · passive		hand outlines	the world	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
5	include	gerund				vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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: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.

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