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title: Historians name early times after the best tool material: the Stone… — The first farms and towns · tree and pragmatics
description: Historians name early times after the best tool material: the Stone Age, then the Bronze Age, then the Iron Age. Who acts: Historians. 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 19

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Historians name early times after the best tool material: the Stone Age, then the Bronze Age, then the Iron Age.

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**Who acts:** Historians · **What happens:** name

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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 (Historians), 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:19
# text = Historians name early times after the best tool material: the Stone Age, then the Bronze Age, then the Iron Age.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×4
1	Historians	historian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	name	name	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
8	tool	tool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Stone	Stone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Age	age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Bronze	Bronze	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	Age	age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Age	age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **name** | present | Historians |  |  |  | after the best tool material; time |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:19`.

**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 ×4. **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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