The Second World War, sentence 0
In the 1930s a huge economic crisis, the Great Depression, left millions without jobs, and in some countries frightened, angry people turned to dictators who promised strength and blamed others.
Who acts: huge economic crisis, angry people, dictators · What happens: left, frighten, turn, promise, blame · To what, where: millions, 1930s, angry people, dictators, strength, others
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Second 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 (huge economic crisis, angry people, dictators), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 1930s | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 1930s | det |
| 3 | 1930s | 1930 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 13 left | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 crisis | det |
| 5 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 crisis | amod |
| 6 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 crisis | amod |
| 7 | crisis | crisis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 left | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Depression | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Depression | det |
| 10 | Great | Great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Depression | amod |
| 11 | Depression | Depression | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 crisis | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 millions | punct |
| 13 | left | left | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 left | obj |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 16 jobs | case |
| 16 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 left | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 turned | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 millions | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 countries | case |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 countries | det |
| 21 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 millions | conj |
| 22 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 people | acl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 1930s | punct |
| 24 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 people | amod |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 turned | nsubj |
| 26 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 left | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 dictators | case |
| 28 | dictators | dictator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 turned | obl |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 promised | nsubj |
| 30 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 dictators | acl:relcl |
| 31 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 promised | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 blamed | cc |
| 33 | blamed | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 promised | conj |
| 34 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 blamed | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | left | past | a huge economic crisis | millions and some countries | the 1930s | without jobs | tree rules | ||
| 2 | frighten | participle | angry people not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | angry people | dictators | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to dictator=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | past | dictators | strength | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent strength=Theme | ||||
| 5 | blame | past | dictators not said here | others | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=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:034-the-second-world-war.lesson:0.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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.
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