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title: For most of history people travelled on foot, by boat, or with anima… — Transport: from horses to planes · tree and pragmatics
description: For most of history people travelled on foot, by boat, or with animals. Who acts: people. A sentence of the lesson «Transport: from horses to planes» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Transport: from horses to planes, sentence 0

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For most of history people travelled on foot, by boat, or with animals.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** travel · **To what, where:** foot

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Transport: from horses to planes» 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:099-transport-horses-to-planes.lesson:0
# text = For most of history people travelled on foot, by boat, or with animals.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 099-transport-horses-to-planes.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	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past | people |  |  | foot |  | for most of history; by boat; with animals | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Trajectory |

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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:world:099-transport-horses-to-planes.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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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