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A sentence of the lesson «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history course of Mova's primary school wi --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters, sentence 7 The first humans like us, Homo sapiens, lived in Africa about 300,000 years ago, and every person alive today has ancestors from Africa. **Who acts:** first humans, person · **What happens:** live, have · **To what, where:** Africa, ancestors 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 humans, person), 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:7 # text = The first humans like us, Homo sapiens, lived in Africa about 300,000 years ago, and every person alive today has ancestors from Africa. # 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 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 humans human NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 Homo homo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 sapiens sapien NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 300,000 300000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl:unmarked 16 ago ago ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:amod 22 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:unmarked _ _ 23 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 24 ancestors ancestor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | the first humans like us | | | Africa | | ago *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in africa=Location | | 2 | **have** | present | every person today | ancestors | | Africa | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ancestor=Patient | 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:7`. **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 ×3, 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…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/1-the-first-people/6/) - next →: [The first people: hunters, gatherers a…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/1-the-first-people/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/1-the-first-people/)