--- title: Bronze came into use in the Middle East about 5,000 years ago and ir… — How we got here: the big steps on one long timel… · tree and pragmatics description: Bronze came into use in the Middle East about 5,000 years ago and iron about 3,200 years ago, but at very different times elsewhere; some peoples went straight from stone to iron. Who acts: Bronze, peoples. 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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 (Bronze, peoples), 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:19 # text = Bronze came into use in the Middle East about 5,000 years ago and iron about 3,200 years ago, but at very different times elsewhere; some peoples went straight from stone to iron. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Bronze Bronze PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 into into ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Middle Middle PROPN NNP _ 8 flat _ _ 8 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 5,000 5000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 ago ago ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 3,200 3200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 ago ago ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 25 elsewhere elsewhere ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 28 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 30 straight straight ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_ 34 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **come** | past | Bronze and iron | | | use | | in the Middle East; ago *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into use=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **go** | past | some peoples | | | stone | time | to iron | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from stone=Initial\_Location to iron=Destination | 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:19`. **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): 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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