--- title: About 12,000 years ago there were only a few million people; about o… — How we got here: the big steps on one long timel… · tree and pragmatics description: About 12,000 years ago there were only a few million people; about one billion by 1800 and more than eight billion today. Who acts: few million people. 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 tr --- [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/23/) [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/) / 23 # How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline, sentence 23 About 12,000 years ago there were only a few million people; about one billion by 1800 and more than eight billion today. **Who acts:** few million people · **What happens:** be 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 (few million people), 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:23 # text = About 12,000 years ago there were only a few million people; about one billion by 1800 and more than eight billion today. # 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 ×4 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 12,000 12,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl:unmarked 4 ago ago ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 5 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 6 expl _ _ 6 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 only only ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det 9 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 compound _ _ 15 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 appos _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 1800 1800 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 21 advmod _ _ 20 than than ADP IN _ 19 fixed _ _ 21 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 compound _ _ 22 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 conj _ _ 23 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:unmarked _ _ 24 . . 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 | **be** | past | few million people | | | there | | ago *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. 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