The First World War, sentence 8
Many soldiers believed the war would be over by Christmas 1914, but it lasted more than four years.
Who acts: Many soldiers, war · What happens: believe, be, last · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Many soldiers, war), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 soldiers | amod |
| 2 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 believed | nsubj |
| 3 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 war | det |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 over | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 over | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 over | cop |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 3 believed | ccomp |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Christmas | case |
| 10 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 believed | obl |
| 11 | 1914 | 1914 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 Christmas | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lasted | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 lasted | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lasted | nsubj |
| 15 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 believed | conj |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 18 four | advmod |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 more | fixed |
| 18 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lasted | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | Many soldiers | by Christmas | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | would | the war | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | last | past | war | year | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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, 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:8.
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): no change. 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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