--- title: People like us have lived for about 300,000 years; farming began onl… — How we got here: the big steps on one long timel… · tree and pragmatics description: People like us have lived for about 300,000 years; farming began only about 12,000 years ago, first in the Middle East. Who acts: People, farming. A sentence of the lesson «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [How we got here: the big steps on one…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/) / 12 # How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline, sentence 12 People like us have lived for about 300,000 years; farming began only about 12,000 years ago, first in the Middle East. **Who acts:** People, farming · **What happens:** live, begin · **To what, where:** Middle East This is a sentence of the lesson «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» 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, farming), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:12 # text = People like us have lived for about 300,000 years; farming began only about 12,000 years ago, first in the Middle East. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.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 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 like like ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 nmod _ _ 4 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 lived live VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 300,000 300000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 11 farming farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 only only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 12,000 12,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 ago ago ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 advmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 Middle Middle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present · perfect | People like us | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **begin** | past | farming | | | the Middle East | | ago, first *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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. **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:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.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): 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. 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