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title: The Ages did not start everywhere at the same time; some places used… — The first farms and towns · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ages did not start everywhere at the same time; some places used iron much earlier than others. Who acts: Ages, places. 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 20

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The Ages did not start everywhere at the same time; some places used iron much earlier than others.

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**Who acts:** Ages, places · **What happens:** not start, use · **To what, where:** iron

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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 (Ages, places), 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:20
# text = The Ages did not start everywhere at the same time; some places used iron much earlier than others.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ages	Age	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
15	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	much	much	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **start** | past · do-support | the Ages |  |  |  | time | everywhere *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **use** | past | some places | iron |  |  |  | early *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Patient |

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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:20`.

**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 ×1, 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/).

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