The first farms and towns, sentence 0

About 12,000 years ago some people stopped following the animals and started planting seeds and keeping animals near home: they became farmers.

Who acts: people · What happens: stop, follow, start, plant, keep, become · To what, where: animals, seeds, home, farmers

This is a sentence of the lesson «The first farms and towns» 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), 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	About	about	ADV	_	2 12,000	advmod
2	12,000	12,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ago	obl:unmarked
4	ago	ago	ADV	_	7 stopped	advmod
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stopped	nsubj
7	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 stopped	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 animals	det
10	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 following	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 started	cc
12	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stopped	conj
13	planting	plant	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 started	xcomp
14	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 planting	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 keeping	cc
16	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 planting	conj
17	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 keeping	obj
18	near	near	ADP	_	19 home	case
19	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 keeping	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 became	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 became	nsubj
22	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stopped	parataxis
23	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 became	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	past	some people			ago property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	follow	gerund	some people not said here	the animals			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
3	start	past	some people not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	plant	gerund	some people not said here	seeds			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient
5	keep	gerund	some people not said here	animals	home		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent animal=Theme near home=Location
6	become	past	people	farmers			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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:002-the-first-farms-and-towns.lesson:0.

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): R7-rel-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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