Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses, sentence 13

The oldest known pottery, found in China, is about 20,000 years old and was made by hunter-gatherers, before farming.

Who acts: oldest known pottery, hunter gatherers · What happens: know, find, be, make, farm · To what, where: oldest known pottery, China

This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses» 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 (oldest known pottery, hunter gatherers), 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	4 pottery	det
2	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 pottery	amod
3	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pottery	amod
4	pottery	pottery	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 old	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pottery	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 China	case
8	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 found	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pottery	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 old	cop
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 20,000	advmod
12	20,000	20000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 old	obl:unmarked
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 made	aux:pass
17	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 old	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 gatherers	case
19	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gatherers	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 hunter	punct
21	gatherers	gatherer	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 made	obl:agent
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 farming	punct
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 farming	mark
24	farming	farm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 made	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 old	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	participle						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	find	participle		the oldest known pottery not said here	China			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	the oldest known pottery			year	old property	tree rules
4	make	past · passive	hunter gatherers					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	farm	gerund	hunter gatherers not said here					vn rear-26.2.2-1 «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:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.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): no change. 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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