--- title: In the Blitz German planes bombed British cities, and many children… — The Second World War · tree and pragmatics description: In the Blitz German planes bombed British cities, and many children were evacuated to the countryside with a gas mask and a label to live with strangers. Who acts: German planes. A sentence of the lesson «The Second World War» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # The Second World War, sentence 9 In the Blitz German planes bombed British cities, and many children were evacuated to the countryside with a gas mask and a label to live with strangers. **Who acts:** German planes · **What happens:** bomb, evacuate, live · **To what, where:** British cities, many children, countryside 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 (German planes), 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:9 # text = In the Blitz German planes bombed British cities, and many children were evacuated to the countryside with a gas mask and a label to live with strangers. # 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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Blitz Blitz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 4 German German ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 planes plane NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 bombed bomb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advcl 7 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 evacuated evacuate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 countryside countryside NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 mask mask NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 label label NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:acl 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bomb** | past | German planes | British cities | | | | | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient | | 2 | **evacuate** | past · passive | | many children | | the countryside | | with a gas mask and a label | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to countryside=Destination | | 3 | **live** | to-infinitive | | | | | | with strangers | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with stranger=Location | 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:9`. **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): R5-strong ×4, 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 Second World War, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/8/) - next →: [The Second World War, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/)