--- title: Nobody invented fire, farming began in several lands on its own, and… — How we got here: the big steps on one long timel… · tree and pragmatics description: Nobody invented fire, farming began in several lands on its own, and the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages are labels historians made, not days when everyone upgraded together like in a game. Who acts: Nobody, farming, Stone, historians. 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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, farming, Stone, historians), 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:7 # text = Nobody invented fire, farming began in several lands on its own, and the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages are labels historians made, not days when everyone upgraded together like in a game. # 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, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 nsubj _ _ 2 invented invent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 farming farming NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 6 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det 16 Stone Stone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Bronze Bronze PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 Iron Iron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Ages Age PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 labels label NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj 24 historians historian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 appos _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 30 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 31 nsubj _ _ 31 upgraded upgrade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 together together ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 like like ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 . . 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 | **invent** | past | Nobody | fire | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Result | | 2 | **begin** | past | farming | | | several lands | | on farming's own | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **is a** | present | Stone and Bronze and the Iron Ages | labels | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | participle | historians | labels *not said here* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset label=Product | | 5 | **upgrade** | past | everyone | | | | | like a game; together *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:7`. **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, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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. 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