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title: History is full of chains like a line of dominoes: push the first on… — Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: History is full of chains like a line of dominoes: push the first one, and the last one falls far away, years or even centuries later. Who acts: History, dominoes, last one. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★, sentence 1

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History is full of chains like a line of dominoes: push the first one, and the last one falls far away, years or even centuries later.

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**Who acts:** History, dominoes, last one · **What happens:** be, push, fall · **To what, where:** first one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★» 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 (History, dominoes, last one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:086-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains.lesson:1
# text = History is full of chains like a line of dominoes: push the first one, and the last one falls far away, years or even centuries later.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 086-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains.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): no change
1	History	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	dominoes	domino	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
29	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is** | present | History |  |  |  |  | of chains like a line of dominoes; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **push** | infinitive | dominoes *not said here* | the first one |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | present | the last one |  |  |  |  | away, late *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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): no change. **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.

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