--- title: By 1914 the big countries of Europe were rivals with large armies, t… — The First World War · tree and pragmatics description: By 1914 the big countries of Europe were rivals with large armies, tied together in two groups of allies, so a quarrel between two of them could pull in all the rest, like a playground fight where every friend joins in. Who acts: big countries, quarrel, friend. A sentence of the lesson «The First Wo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/33-the-first-world-war/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [The First World War](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/33-the-first-world-war/) / 0 # The First World War, sentence 0 By 1914 the big countries of Europe were rivals with large armies, tied together in two groups of allies, so a quarrel between two of them could pull in all the rest, like a playground fight where every friend joins in. **Who acts:** big countries, quarrel, friend · **What happens:** be, tie, pull in, join in · **To what, where:** rivals, large armies, two groups, rest This is a sentence of the lesson «The First 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 (big countries, quarrel, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:033-the-first-world-war.lesson:0 # text = By 1914 the big countries of Europe were rivals with large armies, tied together in two groups of allies, so a quarrel between two of them could pull in all the rest, like a playground fight where every friend joins in. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 033-the-first-world-war.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 By by ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1914 1914 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 rivals rival NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 armies army NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 15 together together ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 allies ally NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 quarrel quarrel NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 25 between between ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nmod _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod 29 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 34 det:predet _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 like like ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 playground playground NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 40 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 43 advmod _ _ 41 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 42 det _ _ 42 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 joins join VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 44 in in ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the big countries of Europe | rivals | | | | by 1914; with large armies | tree rules | | 2 | **tie** | participle | | large armies *not said here* | | two groups of allies | | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **pull in** | could | a quarrel between two of countries | all rest | | | | like a playground fight | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme | | 4 | **join in** | present | every friend | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:033-the-first-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): R5-strong ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Votes for women, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/32-votes-for-women/17/) - next →: [The First World War, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/33-the-first-world-war/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/33-the-first-world-war/)