Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity, sentence 16
The Colosseum in Rome held about 50,000 people and had a canvas roof for shade and hidden lifts to bring animals up into the arena.
Who acts: Colosseum, canvas roof · What happens: hold, have, bring up · To what, where: 50,000 people, canvas roof, animals, arena
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 (Colosseum, canvas roof), 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 Colosseum | det |
| 2 | Colosseum | Colosseum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 held | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Rome | case |
| 4 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Colosseum | nmod |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 50,000 | advmod |
| 7 | 50,000 | 50000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 people | nummod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 held | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 held | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 roof | det |
| 12 | canvas | canvas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 roof | compound |
| 13 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 shade | case |
| 15 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 roof | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lifts | cc |
| 17 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lifts | amod |
| 18 | lifts | lift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 roof | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 bring | mark |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 had | xcomp |
| 21 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bring | obj |
| 22 | up | up | ADV | _ | 20 bring | advmod |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 arena | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 arena | det |
| 25 | arena | arena | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the Colosseum in Rome | 50,000 people | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the Colosseum in Rome not said here | a canvas roof and hidden lifts | for shade | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bring up | to-infinitive | a canvas roof and hidden lifts not said here | animals | the arena | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent animal=Patient |
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:16.
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.
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