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title: The spark came in June 1914, when the heir to Austria-Hungary's thro… — The First World War · tree and pragmatics
description: The spark came in June 1914, when the heir to Austria-Hungary's throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was shot in Sarajevo, and within weeks most of Europe was at war. Who acts: spark, most. A sentence of the lesson «The First World War» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# The First World War, sentence 1

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The spark came in June 1914, when the heir to Austria-Hungary's throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was shot in Sarajevo, and within weeks most of Europe was at war.

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**Who acts:** spark, most · **What happens:** come, shoot, be · **To what, where:** heir, Sarajevo, war

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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 (spark, most), 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:1
# text = The spark came in June 1914, when the heir to Austria-Hungary's throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was shot in Sarajevo, and within weeks most of Europe was at war.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spark	spark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	1914	1914	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	heir	heir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Austria	Austria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
14	Hungary	Hungary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Archduke	Archduke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	Franz	Franz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	Ferdinand	Ferdinand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	shot	shoot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Sarajevo	Sarajevo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
28	within	within	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
30	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the spark |  |  |  | june |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shoot** | past · passive |  | the heir to Austria  Hungary's throne |  | Sarajevo |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in sarajevo=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | most of Europe |  |  | war | week |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:1`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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