The Second World War, sentence 7
In September 1939 Germany invaded Poland, and Britain and France declared war; the Second World War lasted until 1945 and was the largest war in history.
Who acts: Germany, Britain, Second World War · What happens: invade, declare, last, be · To what, where: Poland, war, largest war, history
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 (Germany, Britain, Second World 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 September | case |
| 2 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 invaded | obl |
| 3 | 1939 | 1939 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 September | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 invaded | nsubj |
| 5 | invaded | invade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Poland | Poland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 invaded | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 declared | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 declared | cc |
| 9 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 declared | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 France | cc |
| 11 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Britain | conj |
| 12 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 invaded | conj |
| 13 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 declared | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 lasted | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 War | det |
| 16 | Second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 War | amod |
| 17 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 War | compound |
| 18 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 lasted | nsubj |
| 19 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 invaded | parataxis |
| 20 | until | until | ADP | _ | 21 1945 | case |
| 21 | 1945 | 1945 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 lasted | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 war | cc |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 war | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 war | det |
| 25 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 war | amod |
| 26 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lasted | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 history | case |
| 28 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 war | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 invaded | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invade | past | Germany | Poland | september | tree rules | |||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | Britain and France | war | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | last | past | the Second World War | until 1945 | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the Second World War not said here | the largest war | history | tree rules |
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:7.
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): 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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