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title: Farmers built houses of mud brick or wood near their fields and live… — The first farms and towns · tree and pragmatics
description: Farmers built houses of mud brick or wood near their fields and lived in villages all year round. Who acts: Farmers. A sentence of the lesson «The first farms and towns» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The first farms and towns, sentence 11

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Farmers built houses of mud brick or wood near their fields and lived in villages all year round.

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**Who acts:** Farmers · **What happens:** build, live · **To what, where:** houses, fields, villages

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The first farms and towns» 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 (Farmers), 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:11
# text = Farmers built houses of mud brick or wood near their fields and lived in villages all year round.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nsubj
2	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
3	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
13	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	round	round	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13: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 | **build** | past | Farmers | houses of mud brick or wood |  | farmers's fields |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product |
| 2 | **live** | past |  |  |  | villages | year | round *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location |

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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:002-the-first-farms-and-towns.lesson:11`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-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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