Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity, sentence 1

Rich Romans lived in houses with gardens and mosaics, while most people squeezed into blocks of flats called insulae, which could collapse or catch fire.

Who acts: Rich Romans, most people · What happens: live, squeeze, call, collapse, catch · To what, where: houses, blocks, fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity» 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 (Rich Romans, most people), 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	Rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Romans	amod
2	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 houses	case
5	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 gardens	case
7	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 houses	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mosaics	cc
9	mosaics	mosaic	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gardens	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 squeezed	punct
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 squeezed	mark
12	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 people	amod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 squeezed	nsubj
14	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	advcl
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 blocks	case
16	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 squeezed	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 flats	case
18	flats	flat	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 blocks	nmod
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 blocks	acl
20	insulae	insulae	X	Foreign=Yes	19 called	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 collapse	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 collapse	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 collapse	aux
24	collapse	collapse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 insulae	acl:relcl
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 catch	cc
26	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 collapse	conj
27	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 catch	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	live	past	Rich Romans		houses with gardens and mosaics	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
2	squeeze	past	most people		blocks of flats	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent into block=Trajectory
3	call	participle		blocks of flats not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	collapse	could				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	catch	infinitive		fire		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=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:015-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity.lesson:1.

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 ×1, R8-pos-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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