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title: Horses were first tamed about 5,000 to 6,000 years ago on the grassl… — Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people… · tree and pragmatics
description: Horses were first tamed about 5,000 to 6,000 years ago on the grasslands of what are now Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan. A sentence of the lesson «Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals, sentence 8

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Horses were first tamed about 5,000 to 6,000 years ago on the grasslands of what are now Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan.

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**What happens:** tame, be · **To what, where:** Horses, grasslands, Ukraine

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals» of the biology 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals.lesson:8
# text = Horses were first tamed about 5,000 to 6,000 years ago on the grasslands of what are now Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
4	tamed	tame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	5,000	5000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	6,000	6000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	grasslands	grassland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nmod	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tame** | past · passive |  | Horses |  | the grasslands |  | ago, first *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | Ukraine and Russia and Kazakhstan |  |  | now |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals.lesson:8`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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