The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters, sentence 5

They made sharp stone tools and bone needles, sewed fur clothes in the Ice Age, told stories round the fire and painted horses and bulls on cave walls.

Who acts: gatherers · What happens: make, sew, tell, paint · To what, where: sharp stone tools, fur clothes, Ice Age, stories, horses, cave walls · 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 (gatherers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tools	amod
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tools	compound
5	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 needles	cc
7	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 needles	compound
8	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tools	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sewed	punct
10	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
11	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 clothes	compound
12	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	10 sewed	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 Age	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Age	det
15	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Age	compound
16	Age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 clothes	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
19	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 told	obj
20	round	round	ADP	_	22 fire	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fire	det
22	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 painted	cc
24	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
25	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 painted	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bulls	cc
27	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 horses	conj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 walls	case
29	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 walls	compound
30	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 painted	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	gatherers = gatherer	sharp stone tools and bone needles				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tool=Product
2	sew	past	gatherers = gatherer not said here	fur clothes		in the Ice Age		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme in age=Destination
3	tell speech: assert	past	gatherers = gatherer not said here	stories			round the fire	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
4	paint	past	gatherers = gatherer not said here	horses and bulls	cave walls			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme on wall=Destination

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:5.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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