--- title: Progress is not a straight climb: after the western Roman Empire bro… — How we got here: the big steps on one long timel… · tree and pragmatics description: Progress is not a straight climb: after the western Roman Empire broke up, towns in western Europe shrank for centuries, while cities in China and the Islamic world grew. Who acts: Progress, western Roman Empire, towns, cities. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Progress, western Roman Empire, towns, cities), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:24 # text = Progress is not a straight climb: after the western Roman Empire broke up, towns in western Europe shrank for centuries, while cities in China and the Islamic world grew. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Progress progress NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 climb climb NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 8 after after SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 western western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 Roman Roman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 western western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 shrank shrink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 24 while while SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 25 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=27:cc 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 Islamic Islamic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 compound _ _ 31 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 32 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Progress | a straight climb | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **break up** | past | the western Roman Empire | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **shrink** | past | towns in western Europe | | | | century | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **grow** | past | cities in China and the Islamic world | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:24`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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. 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