The first farms and towns, sentence 13
Çatalhöyük in Turkey was a town about 9,000 years ago with houses so tightly packed that people walked over the roofs and climbed in through holes with ladders.
Who acts: Çatalhöyük, people · What happens: be, pack, walk, climb · To what, where: town, roofs, holes
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 (Çatalhöyük, 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 | Çatalhöyük | Çatalhöyük | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 town | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 3 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Çatalhöyük | nmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 town | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 9,000 | advmod |
| 8 | 9,000 | 9,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 town | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 houses | case |
| 12 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 town | nmod |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 packed | advmod |
| 14 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 15 packed | advmod |
| 15 | packed | pack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 houses | amod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 walked | mark |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 walked | nsubj |
| 18 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 packed | advcl |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 roofs | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 roofs | det |
| 21 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 walked | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 climbed | cc |
| 23 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 walked | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADV | _ | 23 climbed | advmod |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 holes | case |
| 26 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 climbed | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 ladders | case |
| 28 | ladders | ladder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 climbed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 town | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Çatalhöyük Turkey | a town | with houses; ago property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pack | past | tightly property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | walk | past | people | the roofs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over roof=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | climb | past | people not said here | holes | with ladders | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hole=Trajectory |
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:13.
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 ×2, 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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