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title: People also blew paint around their hands to leave hand outlines, ca… — The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: People also blew paint around their hands to leave hand outlines, called stencils, which are found all over the world, including Indonesia and Argentina. Who acts: People, hand outlines. A sentence of the lesson «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history course of Mova's
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# The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters, sentence 16

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People also blew paint around their hands to leave hand outlines, called stencils, which are found all over the world, including Indonesia and Argentina.

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**Who acts:** People, hand outlines · **What happens:** blow, leave, call, find, include · **To what, where:** paint, hands, hand outlines, stencils, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (People, hand outlines), 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:16
# text = People also blew paint around their hands to leave hand outlines, called stencils, which are found all over the world, including Indonesia and Argentina.
# 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 ×2
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod
3	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	around	around	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	outlines	outline	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	stencils	stencil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	xcomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl:relcl
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	case	_	_
25	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Argentina	Argentina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **blow** | past | People | paint |  | people's hands |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent paint=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | People *not said here* | hand outlines |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outline=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | participle | hand outlines *not said here* | stencils |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | present · passive |  | hand outlines |  | the world |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:history:001-the-first-people.lesson:16`.

**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. **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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