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title: The Soviet Union was attacked by Germany in June 1941, and the USA j… — The Second World War · tree and pragmatics
description: The Soviet Union was attacked by Germany in June 1941, and the USA joined the war after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Who acts: Germany, USA, Japan. A sentence of the lesson «The Second World War» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Second World War, sentence 13

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The Soviet Union was attacked by Germany in June 1941, and the USA joined the war after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

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**Who acts:** Germany, USA, Japan · **What happens:** attack, join · **To what, where:** Soviet Union, war, Pearl Harbor

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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 (Germany, USA, Japan), 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:13
# text = The Soviet Union was attacked by Germany in June 1941, and the USA joined the war after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
# 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	attacked	attack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	1941	1941	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
21	Pearl	Pearl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Harbor	Harbor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	1941	1941	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	flat	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **attack** | past · passive | Germany | the Soviet Union |  |  | june |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **join** | past | the USA | the war |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Patient |
| 3 | **attack** | past | Japan | Pearl Harbor |  |  | december |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harbor=Patient |

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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:13`.

**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. **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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