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title: Anne Frank, a Jewish girl, wrote a diary while hiding from the Nazis… — The Second World War · tree and pragmatics
description: Anne Frank, a Jewish girl, wrote a diary while hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam, and it tells one girl's story to millions of readers. Who acts: Anne, diary. A sentence of the lesson «The Second World War» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Second World War, sentence 12

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Anne Frank, a Jewish girl, wrote a diary while hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam, and it tells one girl's story to millions of readers.

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**Who acts:** Anne, diary · **What happens:** write, hide, tell · **To what, where:** diary, Nazis, story, millions · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Second 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 (Anne, diary), 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:12
# text = Anne Frank, a Jewish girl, wrote a diary while hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam, and it tells one girl's story to millions of readers.
# 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 ×1
1	Anne	Anne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	Frank	Frank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	diary	diary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Nazis	Nazi	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Amsterdam	Amsterdam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | Anne | a diary |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diary=Theme |
| 2 | **hide** | gerund | Anne *not said here* |  |  | the Nazis |  | in Amsterdam | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from nazi=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | diary | one girl's story | millions of readers |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to million=Recipient |

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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:034-the-second-world-war.lesson:12`.

**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 ×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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