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title: It is like a giant train network: the faster soldiers and messages c… — Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads · tree and pragmatics
description: It is like a giant train network: the faster soldiers and messages can travel, the easier a huge country is to run. Who acts: Empire, faster soldiers. A sentence of the lesson «Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads, sentence 3

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It is like a giant train network: the faster soldiers and messages can travel, the easier a huge country is to run.

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**Who acts:** Empire, faster soldiers · **What happens:** be, travel · **To what, where:** giant train network

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads» 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 (Empire, faster soldiers), 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:3
# text = It is like a giant train network: the faster soldiers and messages can travel, the easier a huge country is to run.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is** | present | Empire |  |  |  |  | like a giant train network | tree rules |
| 2 | **travel** | can | the faster soldiers and messages | a giant train network *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme network=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | present | the faster soldiers and messages *not said here* |  |  |  |  | run *property* | tree rules |

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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:014-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads.lesson:3`.

**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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