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title: Yet at Christmas 1914 in some places soldiers from both sides climbe… — The First World War · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet at Christmas 1914 in some places soldiers from both sides climbed out, sang carols, swapped gifts and even played football, because ordinary soldiers did not hate each other. Who acts: soldiers, ordinary soldiers. A sentence of the lesson «The First World War» of the history course of Mova's pri
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# The First World War, sentence 3

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Yet at Christmas 1914 in some places soldiers from both sides climbed out, sang carols, swapped gifts and even played football, because ordinary soldiers did not hate each other.

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**Who acts:** soldiers, ordinary soldiers · **What happens:** climb out, sing, swap, play, not hate · **To what, where:** Christmas, 1914, carols, gifts, football, other

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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 (soldiers, ordinary 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:3
# text = Yet at Christmas 1914 in some places soldiers from both sides climbed out, sang carols, swapped gifts and even played football, because ordinary soldiers did not hate each other.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod:unmarked
4	1914	1914	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
8	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct
15	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	carols	carol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
18	swapped	swap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
28	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	hate	hate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
31	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **climb out** | past | soldiers from both sides | Christmas |  | 1914 |  | in some places | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 1914=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | soldiers from both sides *not said here* | carols |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location carol=Theme |
| 3 | **swap** | past | soldiers from both sides *not said here* | gifts |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme |
| 4 | **play** | past | soldiers from both sides *not said here* | football |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **hate** | past · do-support | ordinary soldiers | each other |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus |

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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:3`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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