--- title: The first farmers were often shorter, had worse teeth and caught mor… — How we got here: the big steps on one long timel… · tree and pragmatics description: The first farmers were often shorter, had worse teeth and caught more illnesses than hunters, but farming fed many more people from the same land. Who acts: first farmers, farming. 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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 (first farmers, 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:17 # text = The first farmers were often shorter, had worse teeth and caught more illnesses than hunters, but farming fed many more people from the same land. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 9 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ _ 10 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 13 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 amod _ _ 14 illnesses illness NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 than than ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 farming farming NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 fed feed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the first farmers | | | | | than hunters; often, short *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | past | the first farmers *not said here* | worse teeth | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 3 | **catch** | past | the first farmers *not said here* | more illnesses | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Theme | | 4 | **feed** | past | farming | | many more people | the same land | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | 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:17`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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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