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title: Imagine having two class captains who must agree on everything: neit… — Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic · tree and pragmatics
description: Imagine having two class captains who must agree on everything: neither can boss everyone around. Who acts: you, two class captains. 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 the pragmatics of
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# Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic, sentence 5

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Imagine having two class captains who must agree on everything: neither can boss everyone around.

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**Who acts:** you, two class captains · **What happens:** imagine, have, agree, boss · **To what, where:** two class captains, everyone

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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 (you, two class captains), 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:5
# text = Imagine having two class captains who must agree on everything: neither can boss everyone around.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:ccomp
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	captains	captain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	obl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	boss	boss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	around	around	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | you *not said here* | two class captains |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Patient |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | must | two class captains |  |  |  |  | on everything | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on everything=Topic |
| 4 | **boss** | can | you *not said here* |  | everyone |  |  | neither *property* | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Beneficiary |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:013-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic.lesson:5`.

**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 ×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.

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

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