--- title: A Canadian doctor, John McCrae, wrote the poem In Flanders Fields ab… — The First World War · tree and pragmatics description: A Canadian doctor, John McCrae, wrote the poem In Flanders Fields about the red poppies that grew on the battlefields, and people wear poppies in November to remember those who died in wars. Who acts: Canadian doctor, red poppies, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Canadian doctor, red poppies, people), 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:17 # text = A Canadian doctor, John McCrae, wrote the poem In Flanders Fields about the red poppies that grew on the battlefields, and people wear poppies in November to remember those who died in 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Canadian Canadian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 6 McCrae McCrae PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 In in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 Flanders Flanders PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Fields field PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 14 about about ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 poppies poppy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 battlefields battlefield NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 27 poppies poppy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 November November PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 32 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 31 obj _ _ 33 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 wars war NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | past | a Canadian doctor | the poem | | Flanders Fields about the red poppies | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent poem=Theme in field=Destination | | 2 | **grow** | past | the red poppies | | | the battlefields | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on battlefield=Location | | 3 | **wear** | present | people | poppies | | | november | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent poppy=Source | | 4 | **remember** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | those | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent that=Theme | | 5 | **die** | past | | | | | | in wars | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in war=Attribute | 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:17`. **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. **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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/33-the-first-world-war/16/) - next →: [The Second World War, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/33-the-first-world-war/)