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title: For fun, crowds cheered chariot teams at the Circus Maximus, like fo… — Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christia… · tree and pragmatics
description: For fun, crowds cheered chariot teams at the Circus Maximus, like football fans, and watched gladiators in the Colosseum. Who acts: crowds. A sentence of the lesson «Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity, sentence 4

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For fun, crowds cheered chariot teams at the Circus Maximus, like football fans, and watched gladiators in the Colosseum.

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**Who acts:** crowds · **What happens:** cheer, watch · **To what, where:** chariot teams, Circus Maximus, gladiators, Colosseum

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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 (crowds), 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:4
# text = For fun, crowds cheered chariot teams at the Circus Maximus, like football fans, and watched gladiators in the Colosseum.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	crowds	crowd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cheered	cheer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Circus	Circus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Maximus	Maximus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	fans	fan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	gladiators	gladiator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Colosseum	Colosseum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cheer** | past | crowds | chariot teams |  | the Circus Maximus |  | for fun; like football fans | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus team=Experiencer |
| 2 | **watch** | past | crowds *not said here* | gladiators |  | the Colosseum |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gladiator=Theme |

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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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**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): R6-punct-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.

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