--- title: Neanderthals made tools, used fire, buried their dead and maybe made… — Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the stronges… · tree and pragmatics description: Neanderthals made tools, used fire, buried their dead and maybe made art; their brains were as big as ours, and they had children with our ancestors. Who acts: Neanderthals, brains. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Neanderthals, brains), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:280-evolution-myths-put-right-monkeys-the-strongest-and-missing-links.lesson:17 # text = Neanderthals made tools, used fire, buried their dead and maybe made art; their brains were as big as ours, and they had children with our ancestors. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 280-evolution-myths-put-right-monkeys-the-strongest-and-missing-links.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3 1 Neanderthals neanderthal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 tools tool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 5 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 8 buried bury VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod:poss 10 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 maybe maybe ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 14 art art NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 brains brain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 as as ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 ours our PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 27 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 ancestors ancestor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Neanderthals | tools | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tool=Product | | 2 | **use** | past | Neanderthals *not said here* | fire | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient | | 3 | **bury** | past | Neanderthals *not said here* | Neanderthals's dead | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent dead=Theme art=Destination | | 4 | **make** | participle | | | | | | maybe *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **is** | past | Neanderthals's brains | | | | | as ours; big *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **have** | past | brains *= brain* | children | | | | with our ancestors | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:280-evolution-myths-put-right-monkeys-the-strongest-and-missing-links.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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