The First World War Lesson 33 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 By 1914 the big countries of Europe were rivals with large armies, tied together in two groups of allies, so a quarrel between two of them could pull in all the rest, like a playground fight where every friend joins in. 1 The spark came in June 1914, when the heir to Austria-Hungary's throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was shot in Sarajevo, and within weeks most of Europe was at war. 2 Many soldiers thought it would be over by Christmas, but on the Western Front both sides dug long muddy trenches and neither could break through for years. 3 Yet at Christmas 1914 in some places soldiers from both sides climbed out, sang carols, swapped gifts and even played football, because ordinary soldiers did not hate each other. 4 The fighting stopped at 11 o'clock on 11 November 1918, and today people wear red poppies to remember everyone who died. 5 By 1914 Europe's big powers were rivals in two alliances: Germany and Austria-Hungary on one side, and France, Russia and Britain on the other. 6 In June 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, was shot in Sarajevo, and the alliances pulled one country after another into war. 7 The First World War lasted from 1914 to 1918. 8 Many soldiers believed the war would be over by Christmas 1914, but it lasted more than four years. 9 On the Western Front armies dug long lines of trenches facing each other, muddy, wet and full of rats, and neither side could break through for years. 10 At Christmas 1914 in some places soldiers on both sides stopped fighting, sang carols, swapped gifts and played football in no man's land, the ground between the trenches. 11 The war brought new machines such as tanks, aeroplanes, submarines and machine guns, which made it far deadlier than earlier wars. 12 Soldiers came from many lands, including India, Africa, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and the landing at Gallipoli in 1915 is remembered on Anzac Day. 13 Ukrainian lands were split between Russia and Austria-Hungary, so Ukrainians fought in both the Russian and the Austro-Hungarian armies, sometimes on opposite sides of the same front. 14 At home people faced food shortages, and women did many jobs of the men who had gone to fight. 15 The fighting stopped at 11 o'clock on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, and about 20 million people had died. 16 After the war old empires collapsed and new countries appeared on the map, and people hoped it had been the war to end all wars. 17 A Canadian doctor, John McCrae, wrote the poem In Flanders Fields about the red poppies that grew on the battlefields, and people wear poppies in November to remember those who died in wars. ← previous Votes for womennext → The Second World War↑ back to History This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/33-the-first-world-war/