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title: Settled people made pots of baked clay to store grain, water and oil. — The first farms and towns · tree and pragmatics
description: Settled people made pots of baked clay to store grain, water and oil. Who acts: Settled people. 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 12

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Settled people made pots of baked clay to store grain, water and oil.

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**Who acts:** Settled people · **What happens:** settle, make, bake, store · **To what, where:** pots, grain

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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 (Settled 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:12
# text = Settled people made pots of baked clay to store grain, water and oil.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
4	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
7	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	store	store	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **settle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | past | Settled people | pots of baked clay |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Product |
| 3 | **bake** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **store** | to-infinitive | Settled people *not said here* | grain and water and oil |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=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:002-the-first-farms-and-towns.lesson:12`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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