The first farms and towns, sentence 19
Historians name early times after the best tool material: the Stone Age, then the Bronze Age, then the Iron Age.
Who acts: Historians · What happens: name
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 (Historians), 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 | Historians | historian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 name | nsubj |
| 2 | name | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 times | amod |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 name | obj |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 material | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 material | det |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 material | amod |
| 8 | tool | tool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 material | compound |
| 9 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 name | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Age | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Age | det |
| 12 | Stone | Stone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Age | compound |
| 13 | Age | age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 material | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Age | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 Age | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Age | det |
| 17 | Bronze | Bronze | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Age | compound |
| 18 | Age | age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Age | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Age | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 Age | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Age | det |
| 22 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Age | compound |
| 23 | Age | age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Age | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 name | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | present | Historians | after the best tool material; time | vn appoint-29.1 «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:002-the-first-farms-and-towns.lesson:19.
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): R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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