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title: From Africa people spread step by step over the whole world over man… — The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: From Africa people spread step by step over the whole world over many tens of thousands of years; they did not appear everywhere at once. Who acts: people. A sentence of the lesson «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters, sentence 8

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From Africa people spread step by step over the whole world over many tens of thousands of years; they did not appear everywhere at once.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** spread, not appear · **To what, where:** Africa, whole world

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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), 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:8
# text = From Africa people spread step by step over the whole world over many tens of thousands of years; they did not appear everywhere at once.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
24	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	24	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **spread** | past | people | Africa |  | the whole world over many tens of thousands of years |  | by step | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent step=Theme by step=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **appear** | past · do-support | people |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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, R7-rel-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/).

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