Test 10 · ★★ · The Second World War

Why did the atomic bomb make people more afraid of another big war?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: atomic bomb · What happens: do, make · To what, where: people

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 34 «The Second World War» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bomb	det
4	atomic	atomic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bomb	amod
5	bomb	bomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	obj
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 afraid	advmod
9	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 make	xcomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 war	case
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 war	det
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 war	amod
13	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 afraid	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	make	present	the atomic bomb	people				afraid property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material people=Product

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It was much louder than any bomb before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 louder	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 louder	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 louder	advmod
4	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 bomb	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 bomb	det
7	bomb	bomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 louder	obl
8	before	before	ADV	_	4 louder	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					than any bomb; before, loud property	tree rules

Option 2

It was made of pure gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 gold	case
5	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gold	amod
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		It				of pure gold	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

One bomb could destroy a whole city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 bomb	nummod
2	bomb	bomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 destroy	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 destroy	aux
4	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 city	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 city	amod
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 destroy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	could	One bomb	a whole city					vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument city=Patient

Option 4

It could only hit ships at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hit	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 hit	advmod
4	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hit	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 sea	case
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	could	It	ships		sea			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ship=Theme at sea=Destination

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