--- title: The town of Pompeii, buried by a volcano in AD 79, shows Roman life… — Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christia… · tree and pragmatics description: The town of Pompeii, buried by a volcano in AD 79, shows Roman life frozen in time. Who acts: town. 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 pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/) / 7 # Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity, sentence 7 The town of Pompeii, buried by a volcano in AD 79, shows Roman life frozen in time. **Who acts:** town · **What happens:** bury, show, freeze · **To what, where:** town, AD, Roman life 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 (town), 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:7 # text = The town of Pompeii, buried by a volcano in AD 79, shows Roman life frozen in time. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Pompeii Pompeii PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 volcano volcano NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 AD ad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 79 79 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 flat _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 14 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 Roman roman ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 16 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bury** | participle | | the town of Pompeii *not said here* | | AD | | by a volcano | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by volcano=Destination | | 2 | **show** | present | the town of Pompeii | Roman life | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent life=Recipient | | 3 | **freeze** | participle | | Roman life *not said here* | | | time | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:7`. **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): R7-rel-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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