--- title: The Circus Maximus held perhaps 150,000 fans, who cheered for chario… — Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christia… · tree and pragmatics description: The Circus Maximus held perhaps 150,000 fans, who cheered for chariot teams called the Reds, Whites, Greens and Blues. Who acts: Circus Maximus, 150,000 fans, chariot teams. 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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 (Circus Maximus, 150,000 fans, chariot teams), 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:17 # text = The Circus Maximus held perhaps 150,000 fans, who cheered for chariot teams called the Reds, Whites, Greens and Blues. # 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 ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Circus Circus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Maximus Maximus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 150,000 150000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 fans fan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 cheered cheer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 chariot chariot NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 teams team NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Reds red NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Whites white PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Greens green PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 Blues blue PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 23 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | past | the Circus Maximus | 150,000 fans | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fan=Theme | | 2 | **cheer** | past | 150,000 fans | | | | | for chariot teams | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **call** | participle | chariot teams *not said here* | the Reds and Whites and Greens and Blues | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:17`. **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 ×3. **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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