Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★, sentence 11
Roman roads were built so legions could march fast, and the same roads carried traders, the Latin language and later Christianity.
Who acts: legions, same roads · What happens: build, march, carry · To what, where: Roman roads, traders
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★» 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 (legions, same 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 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 roads | amod |
| 2 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 built | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | aux:pass |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 8 march | mark |
| 6 | legions | legion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 march | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 march | aux |
| 8 | march | march | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 built | advcl |
| 9 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 march | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 carried | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 roads | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 roads | amod |
| 14 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 carried | nsubj |
| 15 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | conj |
| 16 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 carried | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 language | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 language | det |
| 19 | Latin | Latin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 language | amod |
| 20 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 traders | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Christianity | cc |
| 22 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 Christianity | advmod |
| 23 | Christianity | Christianity | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 language | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | Roman roads | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | march | could | legions | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | the same roads | traders and the Latin language and Christianity | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trader=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:086-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains.lesson:11.
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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