The First World War, sentence 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.

Who acts: soldiers, ordinary soldiers · What happens: climb out, sing, swap, play, not hate · To what, where: Christmas, 1914, carols, gifts, football, other

This is a sentence of the lesson «The First World War» 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 (soldiers, ordinary soldiers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	12 climbed	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 1914	case
3	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 climbed	obl
4	1914	1914	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 climbed	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 places	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 places	det
7	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 climbed	obl
8	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 climbed	nsubj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 sides	case
10	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	11 sides	det
11	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 soldiers	nmod
12	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 climbed	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sang	punct
15	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 climbed	conj
16	carols	carol	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sang	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 swapped	punct
18	swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 climbed	conj
19	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 swapped	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 played	cc
21	even	even	ADV	_	22 played	advmod
22	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 climbed	conj
23	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 played	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hate	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 hate	mark
26	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 soldiers	amod
27	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hate	nsubj
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 hate	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 hate	advmod
30	hate	hate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 climbed	advcl
31	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	32 other	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hate	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb out	past	soldiers from both sides	Christmas	1914	in some places	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 1914=Trajectory
2	sing speech: express	past	soldiers from both sides not said here	carols			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location carol=Theme
3	swap	past	soldiers from both sides not said here	gifts			vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme
4	play	past	soldiers from both sides not said here	football			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme
5	not hate	past · do-support	ordinary soldiers	each other			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus

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, 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:033-the-first-world-war.lesson:3.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

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