How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline, sentence 17

The first farmers were often shorter, had worse teeth and caught more illnesses than hunters, but farming fed many more people from the same land.

Who acts: first farmers, farming · What happens: be, have, catch, feed · To what, where: worse teeth, more illnesses, many more people, same land

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 (first farmers, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmers	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 farmers	amod
3	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shorter	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shorter	cop
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 shorter	advmod
6	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shorter	conj
9	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 teeth	amod
10	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 caught	cc
12	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shorter	conj
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 illnesses	amod
14	illnesses	illness	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 caught	obj
15	than	than	ADP	_	16 hunters	case
16	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shorter	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fed	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 fed	cc
19	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fed	nsubj
20	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shorter	conj
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 people	amod
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 people	amod
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fed	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	27 land	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 land	det
26	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 land	amod
27	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fed	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shorter	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the first farmers				than hunters; often, short property	tree rules
2	have	past	the first farmers not said here	worse teeth				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
3	catch	past	the first farmers not said here	more illnesses				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Theme
4	feed	past	farming		many more people	the same land		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient

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:17.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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