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title: Rome grew on seven hills beside the river Tiber, at a place where pe… — Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic · tree and pragmatics
description: Rome grew on seven hills beside the river Tiber, at a place where people could cross the river, good for trade and defence. Who acts: Rome, people. A sentence of the lesson «Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic, sentence 10

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Rome grew on seven hills beside the river Tiber, at a place where people could cross the river, good for trade and defence.

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**Who acts:** Rome, people · **What happens:** grow, cross · **To what, where:** seven hills, river

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic» 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 (Rome, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:013-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic.lesson:10
# text = Rome grew on seven hills beside the river Tiber, at a place where people could cross the river, good for trade and defence.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 013-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Tiber	tiber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Rome |  |  | seven hills |  | beside the river Tiber; at a place | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hill=Location |
| 2 | **cross** | could | people | the river |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient |

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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.

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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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