The Second World War, sentence 9
In the Blitz German planes bombed British cities, and many children were evacuated to the countryside with a gas mask and a label to live with strangers.
Who acts: German planes · What happens: bomb, evacuate, live · To what, where: British cities, many children, countryside
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 (German planes), 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 Blitz | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Blitz | det |
| 3 | Blitz | Blitz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bombed | compound |
| 4 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 planes | amod |
| 5 | planes | plane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bombed | nsubj |
| 6 | bombed | bomb | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cities | amod |
| 8 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bombed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 evacuated | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 evacuated | cc |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 children | amod |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 evacuated | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 evacuated | aux:pass |
| 14 | evacuated | evacuate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 bombed | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 countryside | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 countryside | det |
| 17 | countryside | countryside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 evacuated | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 mask | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 mask | det |
| 20 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mask | compound |
| 21 | mask | mask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 evacuated | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 label | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 label | det |
| 24 | label | label | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mask | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 live | mark |
| 26 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 label | acl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 strangers | case |
| 28 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 live | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bombed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bomb | past | German planes | British cities | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient | ||||
| 2 | evacuate | past · passive | many children | the countryside | with a gas mask and a label | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to countryside=Destination | |||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | with strangers | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with stranger=Location |
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:9.
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): R5-strong ×4, 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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