How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline, sentence 12
People like us have lived for about 300,000 years; farming began only about 12,000 years ago, first in the Middle East.
Who acts: People, farming · What happens: live, begin · To what, where: Middle East
This is a sentence of the lesson «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» 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, farming), 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 | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 us | case |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 People | nmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lived | aux |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 300,000 | advmod |
| 8 | 300,000 | 300000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lived | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
| 11 | farming | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lived | parataxis |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 about | advmod |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 12,000 | advmod |
| 15 | 12,000 | 12,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 12 began | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 first | punct |
| 19 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 began | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 East | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 East | det |
| 22 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 East | compound |
| 23 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 began | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present · perfect | People like us | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | farming | the Middle East | ago, first property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:12.
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. 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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