--- title: History is the story of how people lived in the past; we put events… — Time and history: the timeline and how people li… · tree and pragmatics description: History is the story of how people lived in the past; we put events in order on a timeline, a line where each step stands for the same number of years, like the marks on a ruler. Who acts: History, people, we, step. 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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 (History, people, we, step), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:048-time-and-history.lesson:0 # text = History is the story of how people lived in the past; we put events in order on a timeline, a line where each step stands for the same number of years, like the marks on a ruler. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 048-time-and-history.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 History history NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 past past NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 events event NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 timeline timeline NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 24 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 27 advmod _ _ 25 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 like like ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 marks mark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 ruler ruler NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | History | the story | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | past | people | | | the past | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in past=Location | | 3 | **put** | past | we | events | | order | | on a timeline | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent event=Theme on timeline=Destination | | 4 | **stand** | present | each step | | | | | for the same number of years like the marks on a ruler | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for number=Attribute | 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:world:048-time-and-history.lesson:0`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Natural resources and why we must save…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/16/) - next →: [Time and history: the timeline and how…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/)