Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago, sentence 10
About 10,000 years ago people began to farm and live in villages.
Who acts: people · What happens: begin, farm, live · To what, where: villages
This is a sentence of the lesson «Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago» of the world 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), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 10,000 | advmod |
| 2 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 began | advmod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 farm | mark |
| 8 | farm | farm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 began | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 live | cc |
| 10 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 farm | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 villages | case |
| 12 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 live | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | people | ago property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | farm | to-infinitive | people not said here | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | live | infinitive | people not said here | villages | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location |
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:world:048-time-and-history.lesson:10.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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