--- title: About 10,000 years ago people began to farm and live in villages. — Time and history: the timeline and how people li… · tree and pragmatics description: About 10,000 years ago people began to farm and live in villages. Who acts: people. A sentence of the lesson «Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/10/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Time and history: the timeline and how…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/) / 10 # Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago, sentence 10 About 10,000 years ago people began to farm and live in villages. **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** begin, farm, live · **To what, where:** villages This is a sentence of the lesson «Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago» of the world 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 (people), 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:10 # text = About 10,000 years ago people began to farm and live in villages. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 10,000 10000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl:unmarked 4 ago ago ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 farm farm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 10 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 villages village NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **begin** | past | people | | | | | ago *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **farm** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **live** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | villages | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location | 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:10`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Time and history: the timeline and how…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/7/) - next →: [Time and history: the timeline and how…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/)