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title: Some people became potters, builders, priests or leaders, and villag… — The first farms and towns · tree and pragmatics
description: Some people became potters, builders, priests or leaders, and villages grew into towns. Who acts: people, villages. 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 6

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Some people became potters, builders, priests or leaders, and villages grew into towns.

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**Who acts:** people, villages · **What happens:** become, grow · **To what, where:** potters, towns

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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 (people, villages), 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:6
# text = Some people became potters, builders, priests or leaders, and villages grew into towns.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	potters	potter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	xcomp	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	builders	builder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	.	.	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 | **become** | past | some people | potters and builders and priests or leaders |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | past | villages |  |  |  |  | into towns *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into town=Result |

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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:6`.

**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, 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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