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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 (gatherers), 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:5 # text = They made sharp stone tools and bone needles, sewed fur clothes in the Ice Age, told stories round the fire and painted horses and bulls on cave walls. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 tools tool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 needles needle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 sewed sew VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 10 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Ice Ice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 Age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 18 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 round round ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 painted paint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 bulls bull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **make** | past | gatherers *= gatherer* | sharp stone tools and bone needles | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tool=Product | | 2 | **sew** | past | gatherers *= gatherer* *not said here* | fur clothes | | | in the Ice Age | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme in age=Destination | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | gatherers *= gatherer* *not said here* | stories | | | | round the fire | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | | 4 | **paint** | past | gatherers *= gatherer* *not said here* | horses and bulls | | cave walls | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme on wall=Destination | 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:5`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [The first people: hunters, gatherers a…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/1-the-first-people/4/) - next →: [The first people: hunters, gatherers a…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/1-the-first-people/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/1-the-first-people/)