--- title: About 12,000 years ago some people stopped following the animals and… — The first farms and towns · tree and pragmatics description: About 12,000 years ago some people stopped following the animals and started planting seeds and keeping animals near home: they became farmers. Who acts: people. 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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 (people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:002-the-first-farms-and-towns.lesson:0 # text = About 12,000 years ago some people stopped following the animals and started planting seeds and keeping animals near home: they became farmers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 002-the-first-farms-and-towns.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 12,000 12,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 ago ago ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 6 det _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 following follow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 xcomp _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 planting plant VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 xcomp _ _ 14 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 conj _ _ 17 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 near near ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 23 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 xcomp _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | past | some people | | | | | ago *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **follow** | gerund | some people *not said here* | the animals | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | | 3 | **start** | past | some people *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **plant** | gerund | some people *not said here* | seeds | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient | | 5 | **keep** | gerund | some people *not said here* | animals | | home | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent animal=Theme near home=Location | | 6 | **become** | past | people | farmers | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:002-the-first-farms-and-towns.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): 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/). - ← previous: [The first people: hunters, gatherers a…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/1-the-first-people/18/) - next →: [The first farms and towns, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/2-the-first-farms-and-towns/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/2-the-first-farms-and-towns/)