How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline, sentence 9

Ethan's mate says one caveman rubbed two sticks and boom, fire; Ethan says «sus», meaning suspicious.

Who acts: mate, one caveman, Ethan, sus · What happens: say, rub, mean · To what, where: two sticks, sus · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mate, one caveman, Ethan, sus), 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	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ethan	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 caveman	nummod
6	caveman	caveman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rubbed	nsubj
7	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 sticks	nummod
9	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rubbed	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 boom	cc
11	boom	boom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sticks	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fire	punct
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sticks	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct
15	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 says	nsubj
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	parataxis
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 sus	punct
18	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 says	obj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 sus	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 meaning	punct
21	meaning	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 sus	acl
22	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 meaning	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ethan's mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	rub	past	one caveman	two sticks and boom and fire		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	Ethan	sus		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sus=Topic
4	mean	gerund	sus not said here		suspicious property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:9.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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