--- title: The scientist Robin Dunbar suggested a person can keep about 150 clo… — From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms,… · tree and pragmatics description: The scientist Robin Dunbar suggested a person can keep about 150 close relationships; hunter-gatherer bands were often 20 to 50 people, and the number 150 is still argued about. Who acts: scientist, person, gatherer bands. 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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 (scientist, person, gatherer bands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.lesson:14 # text = The scientist Robin Dunbar suggested a person can keep about 150 close relationships; hunter-gatherer bands were often 20 to 50 people, and the number 150 is still argued about. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 scientist scientist NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 Robin Robin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 4 Dunbar Dunbar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 suggested suggest VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 150 150 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 12 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 relationships relationship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 gatherer gatherer NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 bands band NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 19 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 20 often often ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 21 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nmod 22 to to ADP IN _ 21 fixed _ _ 23 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 parataxis _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 150 150 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 flat _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 31 still still ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 argued argue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 33 about about ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | past | the scientist | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **keep** | can | a person | 150 close relationships | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relationship=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | past | gatherer bands | 20 people | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive | | the number | | | still | about *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | 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:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.lesson:14`. **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): R7-rel-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. 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