Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★, sentence 7

The shot in Sarajevo in 1914 was the spark of the First World War, but two rival alliances of big powers were the dry wood waiting for it.

Who acts: shot, two rival alliances, dry wood · What happens: be, wait, ally · To what, where: spark, dry wood, big powers

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★» 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 (shot, two rival alliances, dry wood), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shot	det
2	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spark	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Sarajevo	case
4	Sarajevo	Sarajevo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 shot	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1914	case
6	1914	1914	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 shot	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spark	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spark	det
9	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 War	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 War	det
12	First	First	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 War	amod
13	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 War	compound
14	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 spark	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wood	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 wood	cc
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 alliances	nummod
18	rival	rival	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 alliances	amod
19	alliances	alliance	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 wood	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 powers	case
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 powers	amod
22	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 alliances	nmod
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 wood	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wood	det
25	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wood	amod
26	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spark	conj
27	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 wood	acl
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 waiting	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 spark	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the shot in Sarajevo in 1914	the spark but the dry wood	of the First World War	tree rules
2	is a	past	two rival alliances of big powers	the dry wood		tree rules
3	wait	gerund	the dry wood not said here		for shot	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ally			big powers		nom alliance «state transitive»: of=patient

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:086-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains.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): 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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