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title: For almost all of human time everyone hunted animals and gathered pl… — How we got here: the big steps on one long timel… · tree and pragmatics
description: For almost all of human time everyone hunted animals and gathered plants, nuts and berries. Who acts: everyone. 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 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline, sentence 4

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For almost all of human time everyone hunted animals and gathered plants, nuts and berries.

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**Who acts:** everyone · **What happens:** hunt, gather · **To what, where:** animals, plants

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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 (everyone), 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:4
# text = For almost all of human time everyone hunted animals and gathered plants, nuts and berries.
# 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
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | past | everyone | animals |  |  |  | for all | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent animal=Location for all=Theme |
| 2 | **gather** | past | everyone *not said here* | plants and nuts and berries |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme |

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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.

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**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:4`.

**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. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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