--- title: Nobody knows exactly when people began to talk; many scientists thin… — How we got here: the big steps on one long timel… · tree and pragmatics description: Nobody knows exactly when people began to talk; many scientists think full language is at least 100,000 years old, and it is still argued about. Who acts: Nobody, people, many scientists, full language. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody, people, many scientists, full language), 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:16 # text = Nobody knows exactly when people began to talk; many scientists think full language is at least 100,000 years old, and it is still argued about. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 nsubj _ _ 2 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 13 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 18 nmod _ _ 18 100,000 100000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 ccomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 25 still still ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 argued argue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 27 about about ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present | Nobody | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **begin** | past | people | | | | | exactly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **talk** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | many scientists | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | full language | | | | year | old *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive | | language | | | still | about *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | 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:16`. **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): R7-rel-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. 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