--- title: Gladiators fought in arenas to entertain crowds; many were slaves or… — Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christia… · tree and pragmatics description: Gladiators fought in arenas to entertain crowds; many were slaves or prisoners, some were volunteers, and famous ones were like sports stars. Who acts: Gladiators, many, some. 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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 (Gladiators, many, some), 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:14 # text = Gladiators fought in arenas to entertain crowds; many were slaves or prisoners, some were volunteers, and famous ones were like sports stars. # 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 Gladiators gladiator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 arenas arena NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 entertain entertain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 7 crowds crowd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:JJ:PronType=Ind 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 slaves slave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 prisoners prisoner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 16 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 volunteers volunteer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 22 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 23 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 sports sport NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 compound _ _ 25 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fight** | past | Gladiators | | | arenas | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **entertain** | to-infinitive | Gladiators *not said here* | crowds | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus crowd=Experiencer | | 3 | **is a** | past | many | slaves or prisoners and volunteers and famous ones | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | past | some | volunteers and famous ones | | | | | tree rules | 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:14`. **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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