--- title: At Christmas 1914 in some places soldiers on both sides stopped figh… — The First World War · tree and pragmatics description: At Christmas 1914 in some places soldiers on both sides stopped fighting, sang carols, swapped gifts and played football in no man's land, the ground between the trenches. Who acts: soldiers. A sentence of the lesson «The First World War» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [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/10/) [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/) / 10 # The First World War, sentence 10 At Christmas 1914 in some places soldiers on both sides stopped fighting, sang carols, swapped gifts and played football in no man's land, the ground between the trenches. **Who acts:** soldiers · **What happens:** stop, fight, sing, swap, play · **To what, where:** places, Christmas, 1914, gifts, football, land 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 (soldiers), 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:10 # text = At Christmas 1914 in some places soldiers on both sides stopped fighting, sang carols, swapped gifts and played football in no man's land, the ground between the trenches. # 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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 3 1914 1914 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 obl _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 6 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound 7 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 12 fighting fight VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 14 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 15 carols carol NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 swapped swap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 18 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 21 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 24 det _ _ 24 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 30 between between ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 trenches trench NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | past | soldiers on both sides | some places | | Christmas | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **fight** | gerund | soldiers on both sides *not said here* | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | soldiers on both sides *not said here* | 1914 | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location carol=Theme | | 4 | **swap** | past | soldiers on both sides *not said here* | gifts | | | | | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | | 5 | **play** | past | soldiers on both sides *not said here* | football | | no man's land | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme | 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:10`. **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 ×5, 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: [The First World War, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/33-the-first-world-war/9/) - next →: [The First World War, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/33-the-first-world-war/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/33-the-first-world-war/)