Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity, sentence 4
For fun, crowds cheered chariot teams at the Circus Maximus, like football fans, and watched gladiators in the Colosseum.
Who acts: crowds · What happens: cheer, watch · To what, where: chariot teams, Circus Maximus, gladiators, Colosseum
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 (crowds), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 fun | case |
| 2 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cheered | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fun | punct |
| 4 | crowds | crowd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cheered | nsubj |
| 5 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 teams | compound |
| 7 | teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cheered | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Maximus | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Maximus | det |
| 10 | Circus | Circus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Maximus | compound |
| 11 | Maximus | Maximus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 teams | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fans | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 fans | case |
| 14 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fans | compound |
| 15 | fans | fan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cheered | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 watched | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 watched | cc |
| 18 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cheered | conj |
| 19 | gladiators | gladiator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 watched | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Colosseum | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Colosseum | det |
| 22 | Colosseum | Colosseum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 gladiators | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cheered | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheer | past | crowds | chariot teams | the Circus Maximus | for fun; like football fans | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus team=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | watch | past | crowds not said here | gladiators | the Colosseum | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gladiator=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:4.
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): R6-punct-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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