--- title: The Roman army was made of legions of about 5,000 well-trained profe… — Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads · tree and pragmatics description: The Roman army was made of legions of about 5,000 well-trained professional soldiers with armour, shields and short swords; they won more by discipline, training and teamwork than by having more men. Who acts: army, training. 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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 (army, training), 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:9 # text = The Roman army was made of legions of about 5,000 well-trained professional soldiers with armour, shields and short swords; they won more by discipline, training and teamwork than by having more men. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Roman Roman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 legions legion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 5,000 5000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 11 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 14 professional professional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 armour armour NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 shields shield NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 swords sword NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 26 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 27 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 discipline discipline NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 training training NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 teamwork teamwork NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=30:conj 33 than than SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 by by SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ _ 36 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 37 amod _ _ 37 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past · passive | | the Roman army | | | | of legions of 5,000 trained professional soldiers with armour and shields and short swords | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **train** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **win** | past | army | more | | | | by discipline and training and teamwork | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality | | 4 | **have** | gerund | training *not said here* | more men | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | 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:9`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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. 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