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title: In AD 79 the volcano Vesuvius buried the town of Pompeii in ash, and… — Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christia… · tree and pragmatics
description: In AD 79 the volcano Vesuvius buried the town of Pompeii in ash, and it was dug out much later with streets, shops, paintings and even graffiti. Who acts: volcano. A sentence of the lesson «Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity, sentence 20

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In AD 79 the volcano Vesuvius buried the town of Pompeii in ash, and it was dug out much later with streets, shops, paintings and even graffiti.

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**Who acts:** volcano · **What happens:** bury, dig out · **To what, where:** town, AD, volcano

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (volcano), 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:20
# text = In AD 79 the volcano Vesuvius buried the town of Pompeii in ash, and it was dug out much later with streets, shops, paintings and even graffiti.
# 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 ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	79	79	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	volcano	volcano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Vesuvius	Vesuvius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Pompeii	Pompeii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	much	much	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	graffiti	graffiti	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | past | the volcano | the town of Pompeii |  | AD |  | in ash | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent town=Theme in ad=Destination |
| 2 | **dig out** | past · passive |  | volcano |  |  |  | with streets and shops and paintings and graffiti; late *property* | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: subject=Theme with street=Instrument |

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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.

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**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:20`.

**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 ×1. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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