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title: Think of a leaky old house: no single drip brings it down, but many… — Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us · tree and pragmatics
description: Think of a leaky old house: no single drip brings it down, but many leaks together, year after year, do. Who acts: you, single drip, many leaks. 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 its dependency tree and the
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# Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us, sentence 3

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Think of a leaky old house: no single drip brings it down, but many leaks together, year after year, do.

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**Who acts:** you, single drip, many leaks · **What happens:** think, bring down, do · **To what, where:** house

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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 (you, single drip, many leaks), 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:3
# text = Think of a leaky old house: no single drip brings it down, but many leaks together, year after year, do.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	leaky	leaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
9	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	drip	drip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	leaks	leak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
18	together	together	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of a leaky old house | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring down** | present | no single drip | house |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive | many leaks |  |  |  | year | together *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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

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