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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 th --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline, sentence 9 Ethan's mate says one caveman rubbed two sticks and boom, fire; Ethan says «sus», meaning suspicious. **Who acts:** mate, one caveman, Ethan, sus · **What happens:** say, rub, mean · **To what, where:** two sticks, sus · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (mate, one caveman, Ethan, sus), 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:9 # text = Ethan's mate says one caveman rubbed two sticks and boom, fire; Ethan says «sus», meaning suspicious. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Ethan Ethan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 caveman caveman NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 rubbed rub VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 boom boom NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 Ethan Ethan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 sus sus NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 meaning mean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 22 suspicious suspicious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ethan's mate | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **rub** | past | one caveman | two sticks and boom and fire | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ethan | sus | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sus=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | gerund | sus *not said here* | | | | | suspicious *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:9`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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