--- title: Ordinary Romans ate bread, porridge, olives, cheese and vegetables,… — Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christia… · tree and pragmatics description: Ordinary Romans ate bread, porridge, olives, cheese and vegetables, and rich Romans held feasts lying on couches, with dishes like dormice and fish sauce. Who acts: Ordinary Romans, rich Romans, feasts. 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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 (Ordinary Romans, rich Romans, feasts), 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:12 # text = Ordinary Romans ate bread, porridge, olives, cheese and vegetables, and rich Romans held feasts lying on couches, with dishes like dormice and fish sauce. # 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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Ordinary ordinary 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 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 porridge porridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 olives olive NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 cheese cheese NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 vegetables vegetable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 Romans Roman PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 17 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 feasts feast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 19 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 couches couch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 dishes dish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 dormice dormouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 sauce sauce NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:conj 30 . . 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 | **eat** | past | Ordinary Romans | bread and porridge and olives and cheese and vegetables | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient | | 2 | **hold** | past | rich Romans | feasts | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme | | 3 | **lie** | gerund | feasts *not said here* | | | couches | | with dishes like dormice and fish sauce | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on couch=Location | 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: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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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