Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads, sentence 12

The Romans built about 80,000 kilometres of straight, paved roads so armies and messengers could move fast, and many modern roads still follow Roman routes.

Who acts: Romans, armies, many modern roads · What happens: build, pave, move, follow · To what, where: 80,000 kilometres, Roman routes

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads» 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 (Romans, armies, many modern roads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Romans	det
2	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 built	nsubj
3	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 80,000	advmod
5	80,000	80000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 kilometres	nummod
6	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 built	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 roads	case
8	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 roads	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 paved	punct
10	paved	pave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 roads	amod
11	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kilometres	nmod
12	so	so	SCONJ	_	17 move	mark
13	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 move	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 messengers	cc
15	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 armies	conj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 move	aux
17	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 built	advcl
18	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 move	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 follow	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 follow	cc
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 roads	amod
22	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 roads	amod
23	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 follow	nsubj
24	still	still	ADV	_	25 follow	advmod
25	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 built	conj
26	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 routes	amod
27	routes	route	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 follow	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 built	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	the Romans	80,000 kilometres of straight paved roads			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilometre=Product
2	pave	participle					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	move	could	armies and messengers			fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	follow	present	many modern roads	Roman routes	still		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent route=Theme

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, 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:014-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads.lesson:12.

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.

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