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title: Red poppies grew on the battlefields of the First World War; the poe… — Days of remembering: sorokovyny, memorial days,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Red poppies grew on the battlefields of the First World War; the poem «In Flanders Fields» by John McCrae helped make them a symbol of remembrance. Who acts: Red poppies, poem. A sentence of the lesson «Days of remembering: sorokovyny, memorial days, Remembrance Day and the poppy» of the religion et
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# Days of remembering: sorokovyny, memorial days, Remembrance Day and the poppy, sentence 8

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Red poppies grew on the battlefields of the First World War; the poem «In Flanders Fields» by John McCrae helped make them a symbol of remembrance.

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**Who acts:** Red poppies, poem · **What happens:** grow, help, make · **To what, where:** battlefields, poppies

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Days of remembering: sorokovyny, memorial days, Remembrance Day and the poppy» of the religion ethics 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 (Red poppies, poem), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:064-days-of-remembering-sorokovyny-remembrance-day-and-the-poppy.lesson:8
# text = Red poppies grew on the battlefields of the First World War; the poem «In Flanders Fields» by John McCrae helped make them a symbol of remembrance.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 064-days-of-remembering-sorokovyny-remembrance-day-and-the-poppy.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	poppies	poppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	battlefields	battlefield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	First	First	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:appos
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
16	In	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Flanders	Flanders	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Fields	Fields	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:appos|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
22	McCrae	McCrae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	symbol	symbol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
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 | **grow** | past | Red poppies |  |  | the battlefields of the World War |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on battlefield=Location |
| 2 | **help** | past | the poem in Flanders Fields by John |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | the poem in Flanders Fields by John *not said here* | poppies *= poppy* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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