The Second World War, sentence 16

The war ended in Europe in May 1945 and in Asia in August 1945, after the USA dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki; each single bomb destroyed most of a city.

Who acts: war, USA, single bomb · What happens: end, drop, destroy · To what, where: Europe, atomic bombs, two Japanese cities, most

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 (war, USA, single bomb), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 war	det
2	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ended	nsubj
3	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Europe	case
5	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ended	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 May	case
7	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ended	obl
8	1945	1945	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 May	nmod:unmarked
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Asia	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Asia	case
11	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 May	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 August	case
13	August	August	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ended	obl
14	1945	1945	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 August	nmod:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dropped	punct
16	after	after	SCONJ	_	19 dropped	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 USA	det
18	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 dropped	nsubj
19	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ended	advcl
20	atomic	atomic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bombs	amod
21	bombs	bomb	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 dropped	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 cities	case
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 cities	nummod
24	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cities	amod
25	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 dropped	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Hiroshima	punct
27	Hiroshima	Hiroshima	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 cities	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Nagasaki	cc
29	Nagasaki	Nagasaki	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Hiroshima	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 bomb	punct
31	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	33 bomb	det
32	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 bomb	amod
33	bomb	bomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Hiroshima	appos
34	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 bomb	acl
35	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 destroyed	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 city	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 city	det
38	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 most	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ended	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	end	past	the war		Europe	august; may	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	drop	past	the USA	atomic bombs	two Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bomb=Theme on city=Destination
3	destroy	participle	each single bomb not said here	most of a city			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Patient

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, 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:16.

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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