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title: Rome had two consuls at the top for that very reason, and a Senate o… — Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic · tree and pragmatics
description: Rome had two consuls at the top for that very reason, and a Senate of experienced men to advise them. Who acts: Rome. 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 every clause.
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# Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic, sentence 6

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Rome had two consuls at the top for that very reason, and a Senate of experienced men to advise them.

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**Who acts:** Rome · **What happens:** have, advise · **To what, where:** two consuls, top, consuls

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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), 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:6
# text = Rome had two consuls at the top for that very reason, and a Senate of experienced men to advise them.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	consuls	consul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	very	very	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
11	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Senate	Senate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	experienced	experienced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	advise	advise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advcl
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **have** | past | Rome | two consuls and a Senate of experienced men |  | the top |  | for that very reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consul=Patient |
| 2 | **advise** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Rome *not said here* | consuls *= consul* |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

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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:6`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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