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title: In September 1939 Germany invaded Poland, and Britain and France dec… — The Second World War · tree and pragmatics
description: In September 1939 Germany invaded Poland, and Britain and France declared war; the Second World War lasted until 1945 and was the largest war in history. Who acts: Germany, Britain, Second World War. A sentence of the lesson «The Second World War» of the history course of Mova's primary school with 
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# The Second World War, sentence 7

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In September 1939 Germany invaded Poland, and Britain and France declared war; the Second World War lasted until 1945 and was the largest war in history.

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**Who acts:** Germany, Britain, Second World War · **What happens:** invade, declare, last, be · **To what, where:** Poland, war, largest war, history

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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, Britain, Second World War), 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:7
# text = In September 1939 Germany invaded Poland, and Britain and France declared war; the Second World War lasted until 1945 and was the largest war in history.
# 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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	1939	1939	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	invaded	invade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Poland	Poland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	Second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
17	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
20	until	until	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	1945	1945	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	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 | **invade** | past | Germany | Poland |  |  | september |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Britain and France | war |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute |
| 3 | **last** | past | the Second World War |  |  |  | until 1945 |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the Second World War *not said here* | the largest war |  | history |  |  | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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. **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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