--- title: The first people like us lived in Africa about 300,000 years ago, an… — The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave pa… · tree and pragmatics description: The first people like us lived in Africa about 300,000 years ago, and over many thousands of years their children's children walked out and spread over the whole world. Who acts: first people, children. A sentence of the lesson «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history --- [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/1/) [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/) / 1 # The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters, sentence 1 The first people like us lived in Africa about 300,000 years ago, and over many thousands of years their children's children walked out and spread over the whole world. **Who acts:** first people, children · **What happens:** live, walk out, spread · **To what, where:** Africa, many thousands, whole world 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 (first people, children), 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:1 # text = The first people like us lived in Africa about 300,000 years ago, and over many thousands of years their children's children walked out and spread over the whole world. # 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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nsubj 4 like like SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nsubj 6 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:acl:relcl 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 300,000 300000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 ago ago ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 over over ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 25 out out ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 28 over over ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **live** | past | the first people us | | | Africa | | ago *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in africa=Location | | 2 | **walk out** | past | people's children's children | many thousands of years | | | | out *property* | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **spread** | past | people's children's children *not said here* | | | the whole world | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over world=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](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:1`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The first people: hunters, gatherers a…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/1-the-first-people/0/) - next →: [The first people: hunters, gatherers a…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/1-the-first-people/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/1-the-first-people/)