Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity, sentence 10

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

Who acts: Rich Romans, most people, flats, insulae · What happens: live, call, collapse, catch · To what, where: houses, crowded blocks, insulae, 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, flats, insulae), 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 lived	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 lived	cc
12	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 people	amod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lived	nsubj
14	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 blocks	case
16	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 blocks	amod
17	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lived	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 flats	case
19	flats	flat	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 blocks	nmod
20	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 flats	acl
21	insulae	insulae	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 called	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 collapse	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 collapse	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 collapse	aux
25	collapse	collapse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 insulae	acl:relcl
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 catch	cc
27	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 collapse	conj
28	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 catch	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	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	live	past	most people		crowded blocks of flats	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in block=Location
3	call	participle	flats not said here	insulae		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	collapse	could	insulae			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	catch	infinitive	insulae not said here	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: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): 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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