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title: Some hunted bison, some farmed corn, beans and squash, some built to… — Native peoples of North America · tree and pragmatics
description: Some hunted bison, some farmed corn, beans and squash, some built towns of stone in cliffs, and at Cahokia a city with huge earth mounds. Who acts: Some. A sentence of the lesson «Native peoples of North America» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Native peoples of North America, sentence 4

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Some hunted bison, some farmed corn, beans and squash, some built towns of stone in cliffs, and at Cahokia a city with huge earth mounds.

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**Who acts:** Some · **What happens:** hunt, farm, build · **To what, where:** bison, corn, towns, cliffs

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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 (Some), 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:4
# text = Some hunted bison, some farmed corn, beans and squash, some built towns of stone in cliffs, and at Cahokia a city with huge earth mounds.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bison	bison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	some	some	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
6	farmed	farm	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	squash	squash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
14	built	build	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Cahokia	Cahokia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	mounds	mound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | past | Some | bison and Cahokia and a city with huge earth mounds |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bison=Theme |
| 2 | **farm** | past | some | corn and beans and squash |  |  |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient |
| 3 | **build** | past | some | towns of stone |  | cliffs |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset town=Product |

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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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**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): 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/).

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