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title: People first came to the Americas at least 15,000 years ago, probabl… — Native peoples of North America · tree and pragmatics
description: People first came to the Americas at least 15,000 years ago, probably from Asia during the Ice Age, across a land bridge or along the coast by boat. Who acts: People. A sentence of the lesson «Native peoples of North America» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Native peoples of North America, sentence 0

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People first came to the Americas at least 15,000 years ago, probably from Asia during the Ice Age, across a land bridge or along the coast by boat.

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**Who acts:** People · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** Asia

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Native peoples of North America» 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:017-native-peoples-of-north-america.lesson:0
# text = People first came to the Americas at least 15,000 years ago, probably from Asia during the Ice Age, across a land bridge or along the coast by boat.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 017-native-peoples-of-north-america.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Americas	Americas	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	nmod	_	_
9	15,000	15000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	during	during	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	Age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	across	across	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	along	along	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed hedge=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | People |  |  | Asia | during the Ice Age | to the Americas; across a land bridge or the coast by boat; ago, first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to americas=Initial\_Location from asia=Destination |

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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:017-native-peoples-of-north-america.lesson:0`.

**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): 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/).

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