--- title: The Romans built about 80,000 kilometres of straight, paved roads so… — Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads · tree and pragmatics description: The Romans built about 80,000 kilometres of straight, paved roads so armies and messengers could move fast, and many modern roads still follow Roman routes. Who acts: Romans, armies, many modern roads. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Romans, armies, many modern roads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:014-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads.lesson:12 # text = The Romans built about 80,000 kilometres of straight, paved roads so armies and messengers could move fast, and many modern roads still follow Roman routes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 014-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Romans Roman PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 3 built build VERB VBD Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 80,000 80000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 paved pave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 12 so so SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 13 armies army NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 messengers messenger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 18 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 still still ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 Roman roman ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 routes route NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | the Romans | 80,000 kilometres of straight paved roads | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilometre=Product | | 2 | **pave** | participle | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **move** | could | armies and messengers | | | | | fast *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **follow** | present | many modern roads | Roman routes | | | still | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent route=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](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:014-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads.lesson:12`. **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): R8-pos-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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