The Second World War, sentence 10

Ukraine was one of the places worst hit: fighting went back and forth across it, cities were ruined, and millions of Ukrainians died as soldiers and as civilians.

Who acts: Ukraine, fighting, millions · What happens: be, hit, go back, ruin, die · To what, where: one, places, label, cities

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 (Ukraine, fighting, millions), 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	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 one	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 one	cop
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 places	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 places	det
6	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
7	worst	bad	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 hit	advmod
8	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 places	acl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
10	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 one	parataxis
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 forth	cc
14	forth	forth	ADV	_	12 back	conj
15	across	across	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ruined	punct
18	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ruined	nsubj:pass
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ruined	aux:pass
20	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 one	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 died	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 died	cc
23	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 died	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Ukrainians	case
25	Ukrainians	Ukrainian	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 millions	nmod
26	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ruined	parataxis
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 soldiers	case
28	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 died	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 civilians	cc
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 civilians	case
31	civilians	civilian	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 soldiers	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ukraine	one		of the places	tree rules
2	hit	participle		the places not said here		bad property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go back	past	fighting		label		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	ruin	past · passive		cities			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	die	past	millions of Ukrainians			as soldiers and civilians	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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:10.

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): R8-pos-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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