Ancient times and famous stories, sentence 8
A Roman vomitorium was a wide passage that let crowds pour out of a stadium or theatre, not a room for being sick.
Who acts: Roman vomitorium, wide passage, crowds, room · What happens: be, let, pour out · To what, where: wide passage, crowds, stadium
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient times and famous stories» of the myths 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 (Roman vomitorium, wide passage, crowds, room), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 vomitorium | det |
| 2 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 vomitorium | amod |
| 3 | vomitorium | vomitorium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passage | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passage | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 passage | det |
| 6 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 passage | amod |
| 7 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 let | nsubj |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passage | acl:relcl |
| 10 | crowds | crowd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 stadium | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 stadium | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stadium | det |
| 15 | stadium | stadium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pour | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 theatre | cc |
| 17 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stadium | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 room | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 room | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 room | det |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stadium | appos |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 sick | mark |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 sick | cop |
| 24 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 room | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 passage | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a Roman vomitorium | a wide passage | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | past | a wide passage | crowds | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pour out | infinitive | crowds not said here | a stadium or theatre | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stadium=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | gerund | a room not said here | sick property | tree rules |
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:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.lesson:8.
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 ×3. 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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