Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago, sentence 15
Before farming, people lived by hunting animals and gathering wild plants.
Who acts: people · What happens: farm, live, hunt, gather · To what, where: animals, wild plants
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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 2 farming | case |
| 2 | farming | farm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 lived | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 farming | punct |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 hunting | mark |
| 7 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 lived | advcl |
| 8 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hunting | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gathering | cc |
| 10 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 hunting | conj |
| 11 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 plants | amod |
| 12 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gathering | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | 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 | farm | gerund | people not said here | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | live | past | people | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hunt | gerund | people not said here | animals | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | ||||
| 4 | gather | gerund | people not said here | wild plants | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme |
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:15.
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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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