--- title: The oldest known pottery, found in China, is about 20,000 years old… — Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses… · tree and pragmatics description: The oldest known pottery, found in China, is about 20,000 years old and was made by hunter-gatherers, before farming. Who acts: oldest known pottery, hunter gatherers. 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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 (oldest known pottery, hunter gatherers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.lesson:13 # text = The oldest known pottery, found in China, is about 20,000 years old and was made by hunter-gatherers, before farming. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 oldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 3 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 pottery pottery NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 20,000 20000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 gatherers gatherer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:agent _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 before before SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 farming farm VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 advcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 14 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 | **know** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **find** | participle | | the oldest known pottery *not said here* | | China | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | the oldest known pottery | | | | year | old *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | past · passive | hunter gatherers | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **farm** | gerund | hunter gatherers *not said here* | | | | | | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «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:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.lesson:13`. **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): no change. **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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