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title: After the war old empires collapsed and new countries appeared on th… — The First World War · tree and pragmatics
description: After the war old empires collapsed and new countries appeared on the map, and people hoped it had been the war to end all wars. Who acts: old empires, new countries, people, fighting. A sentence of the lesson «The First World War» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# The First World War, sentence 16

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After the war old empires collapsed and new countries appeared on the map, and people hoped it had been the war to end all wars.

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**Who acts:** old empires, new countries, people, fighting · **What happens:** collapse, appear, hope, be, end · **To what, where:** map, war, wars · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (old empires, new countries, people, fighting), 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:16
# text = After the war old empires collapsed and new countries appeared on the map, and people hoped it had been the war to end all wars.
# 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): no change
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	empires	empire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	collapsed	collapse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **collapse** | past | the old empires |  |  |  | after war |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **appear** | past | new countries |  |  | the map |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on map=Location |
| 3 | **hope** | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **is a** | past · perfect | fighting | the war |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **end** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | all wars |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality war=Eventuality |

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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:16`.

**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.

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

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