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description: In 476 a Germanic general removed the last western emperor, a boy named Romulus Augustulus, and this date is often given as the fall of Rome. Who acts: Germanic general. A sentence of the lesson «Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us» of the history course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us, sentence 14

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In 476 a Germanic general removed the last western emperor, a boy named Romulus Augustulus, and this date is often given as the fall of Rome.

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**Who acts:** Germanic general · **What happens:** remove, name, give · **To what, where:** last western emperor, 476, boy, date

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us» 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 (Germanic general), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:016-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us.lesson:14
# text = In 476 a Germanic general removed the last western emperor, a boy named Romulus Augustulus, and this date is often given as the fall of Rome.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 016-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us.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 ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	476	476	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Germanic	Germanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
5	general	general	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	removed	remove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
14	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	Romulus	Romulus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	_
16	Augustulus	Augustulus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **remove** | past | a Germanic general | the last western emperor |  | 476 |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | present · passive |  | this date |  |  |  | as the fall of Rome; often *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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**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:016-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us.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): R7-rel-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.

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

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