--- title: On 6 June 1944, D-Day, Allied troops landed on the beaches of Norman… — The Second World War · tree and pragmatics description: On 6 June 1944, D-Day, Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in France, the largest landing from the sea in history, which began the freeing of western Europe. Who acts: Allied troops, largest landing. A sentence of the lesson «The Second World War» of the history course of Mova's primary --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [The Second World War](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/) / 15 # The Second World War, sentence 15 On 6 June 1944, D-Day, Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in France, the largest landing from the sea in history, which began the freeing of western Europe. **Who acts:** Allied troops, largest landing · **What happens:** land, begin, free · **To what, where:** beaches, freeing, western Europe 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 (Allied troops, largest landing), 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:15 # text = On 6 June 1944, D-Day, Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in France, the largest landing from the sea in history, which began the freeing of western Europe. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 June June PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 4 1944 1944 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 flat _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 D D PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 Allied allied ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 troops troops NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 12 nsubj _ _ 12 landed land VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 beaches beach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Normandy Normandy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 amod _ _ 23 landing land NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obl 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 freeing freeing NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 western western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **land** | past | Allied troops | | | the beaches of Normandy in France | june | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on beach=Destination | | 2 | **begin** | past | the largest landing from the sea in history | the freeing of western Europe | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freeing=Eventuality | | 3 | **free** | | | western Europe | | | | | nom freeing «act transitive»: of=patient | 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:15`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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 Second World War, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/14/) - next →: [The Second World War, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/)