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title: The shot in Sarajevo in 1914 was the spark of the First World War, b… — Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: The shot in Sarajevo in 1914 was the spark of the First World War, but two rival alliances of big powers were the dry wood waiting for it. Who acts: shot, two rival alliances, dry wood. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★» of the history course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★, sentence 7

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The shot in Sarajevo in 1914 was the spark of the First World War, but two rival alliances of big powers were the dry wood waiting for it.

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**Who acts:** shot, two rival alliances, dry wood · **What happens:** be, wait, ally · **To what, where:** spark, dry wood, big powers

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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 (shot, two rival alliances, dry wood), 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:7
# text = The shot in Sarajevo in 1914 was the spark of the First World War, but two rival alliances of big powers were the dry wood waiting for it.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shot	shot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Sarajevo	Sarajevo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1914	1914	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	spark	spark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	First	First	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
13	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	rival	rival	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	alliances	alliance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
27	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the shot in Sarajevo in 1914 | the spark but the dry wood |  |  |  | of the First World War | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | two rival alliances of big powers | the dry wood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wait** | gerund | the dry wood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for shot | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ally** |  |  | big powers |  |  |  |  | nom alliance «state transitive»: of=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:086-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains.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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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