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title: What really happened: wheeled carts appeared only about 5,500 years… — Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses… · tree and pragmatics
description: What really happened: wheeled carts appeared only about 5,500 years ago, long after fire, boats, pots and farming. Who acts: wheeled carts. A sentence of the lesson «Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses, sentence 2

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What really happened: wheeled carts appeared only about 5,500 years ago, long after fire, boats, pots and farming.

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**Who acts:** wheeled carts · **What happens:** happen, wheel, appear

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses» 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 (wheeled carts), 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:2
# text = What really happened: wheeled carts appeared only about 5,500 years ago, long after fire, boats, pots and 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
5	wheeled	wheel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	amod	_	_
6	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	5,500	5,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl:unmarked
12	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	farming	farm	NOUN	NN	_	16	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wheel** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **appear** | past | wheeled carts |  |  |  | after fire and boats and pots and farming | ago *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.lesson:2`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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