--- title: In the 1930s a huge economic crisis, the Great Depression, left mill… — The Second World War · tree and pragmatics description: In the 1930s a huge economic crisis, the Great Depression, left millions without jobs, and in some countries frightened, angry people turned to dictators who promised strength and blamed others. Who acts: huge economic crisis, angry people, dictators. 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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 (huge economic crisis, angry people, dictators), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:034-the-second-world-war.lesson:0 # text = In the 1930s a huge economic crisis, the Great Depression, left millions without jobs, and in some countries frightened, angry people turned to dictators who promised strength and blamed others. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 034-the-second-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, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 1930s 1930 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 economic economic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 crisis crisis NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Great Great ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 Depression Depression PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 left left VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:conj 14 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 without without ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 17 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 21 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 22 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 24 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 dictators dictator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=30:cc 33 blamed blame VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 34 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **left** | past | a huge economic crisis | millions and some countries | | the 1930s | | without jobs | tree rules | | 2 | **frighten** | participle | | angry people *not said here* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **turn** | past | angry people | | | dictators | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to dictator=Trajectory | | 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | dictators | strength | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent strength=Theme | | 5 | **blame** | past | dictators *not said here* | others | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=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:034-the-second-world-war.lesson:0`. **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, R5-strong ×3, 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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/33-the-first-world-war/17/) - next →: [The Second World War, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/)