--- title: Rich Romans lived in houses with gardens and mosaics, but most peopl… — Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christia… · tree and pragmatics description: Rich Romans lived in houses with gardens and mosaics, but most people lived in crowded blocks of flats called insulae, which could collapse or catch fire. Who acts: Rich Romans, most people, flats, insulae. 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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 (Rich Romans, most people, flats, insulae), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:015-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity.lesson:10 # text = Rich Romans lived in houses with gardens and mosaics, but most people lived in crowded blocks of flats called insulae, which could collapse or catch fire. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 015-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity.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 ×2 1 Rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Romans Roman PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 3 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 gardens garden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 mosaics mosaic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 crowded crowded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 blocks block NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 flats flat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 insulae insulae NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:xcomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:FW:Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 24 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 collapse collapse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl:relcl _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 28 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | Rich Romans | | | houses with gardens and mosaics | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | | 2 | **live** | past | most people | | | crowded blocks of flats | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in block=Location | | 3 | **call** | participle | flats *not said here* | insulae | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **collapse** | could | insulae | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **catch** | infinitive | insulae *not said here* | fire | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=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:015-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity.lesson:10`. **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 ×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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