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title: Roman roads were built so legions could march fast, and the same roa… — Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Roman roads were built so legions could march fast, and the same roads carried traders, the Latin language and later Christianity. Who acts: legions, same roads. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★, sentence 11

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Roman roads were built so legions could march fast, and the same roads carried traders, the Latin language and later Christianity.

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**Who acts:** legions, same roads · **What happens:** build, march, carry · **To what, where:** Roman roads, traders

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★» 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 (legions, same roads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:086-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains.lesson:11
# text = Roman roads were built so legions could march fast, and the same roads carried traders, the Latin language and later Christianity.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 086-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains.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	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	legions	legion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	march	march	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Latin	Latin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past · passive |  | Roman roads |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **march** | could | legions |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | past | the same roads | traders and the Latin language and Christianity |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trader=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:086-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains.lesson:11`.

**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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