--- title: For almost all of the time humans have existed, nobody farmed, built… — The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave pa… · tree and pragmatics description: For almost all of the time humans have existed, nobody farmed, built towns or wrote anything down: people lived by hunting animals and gathering plants. Who acts: humans, nobody, people. A sentence of the lesson «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/1-the-first-people/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [The first people: hunters, gatherers a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/1-the-first-people/) / 0 # The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters, sentence 0 For almost all of the time humans have existed, nobody farmed, built towns or wrote anything down: people lived by hunting animals and gathering plants. **Who acts:** humans, nobody, people · **What happens:** exist, farm, build, write down, live, hunt · **To what, where:** time, towns, anything, animals, plants This is a sentence of the lesson «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» 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 (humans, nobody, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:001-the-first-people.lesson:0 # text = For almost all of the time humans have existed, nobody farmed, built towns or wrote anything down: people lived by hunting animals and gathering plants. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 001-the-first-people.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 almost almost ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 12 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 humans human NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 existed exist VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 acl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 12 nsubj _ _ 12 farmed farm VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 14 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 15 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 18 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 17 obj _ _ 19 down down ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 23 by by SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 hunting hunt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 25 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 gathering gather VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 conj _ _ 28 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **exist** | present · perfect | humans | the time *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **farm** | past | nobody | | | | | for all | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **build** | past | nobody *not said here* | towns | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset town=Product | | 4 | **write down** | past | nobody *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | | 5 | **live** | past | people | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **hunt** | gerund | people *not said here* | animals | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | | 7 | **gather** | gerund | people *not said here* | 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](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:history:001-the-first-people.lesson:0`. **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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/17/) - next →: [The first people: hunters, gatherers a…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/1-the-first-people/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/1-the-first-people/)