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title: A Roman vomitorium was a wide passage that let crowds pour out of a… — Ancient times and famous stories · tree and pragmatics
description: A Roman vomitorium was a wide passage that let crowds pour out of a stadium or theatre, not a room for being sick. Who acts: Roman vomitorium, wide passage, crowds, room. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient times and famous stories» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Ancient times and famous stories, sentence 8

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A Roman vomitorium was a wide passage that let crowds pour out of a stadium or theatre, not a room for being sick.

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**Who acts:** Roman vomitorium, wide passage, crowds, room · **What happens:** be, let, pour out · **To what, where:** wide passage, crowds, stadium

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient times and famous stories» of the myths 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 (Roman vomitorium, wide passage, crowds, room), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.lesson:8
# text = A Roman vomitorium was a wide passage that let crowds pour out of a stadium or theatre, not a room for being sick.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.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 ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	vomitorium	vomitorium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	crowds	crowd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	pour	pour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stadium	stadium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
23	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
24	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | past | a Roman vomitorium | a wide passage |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | past | a wide passage | crowds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pour out** | infinitive | crowds *not said here* | a stadium or theatre |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stadium=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | a room *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | tree rules |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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