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title: Why did the atomic bomb make people more afraid of another big war? — The Second World War · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did the atomic bomb make people more afraid of another big war? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 34 «The Second World War» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★★ · The Second World War

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/34-the-second-world-war/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:34-the-second-world-war:t10:1
# text = Why did the atomic bomb make people more afraid of another big war?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	atomic	atomic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bomb	bomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It was much louder than any bomb before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:34-the-second-world-war:t10:o1:1
# text = It was much louder than any bomb before
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	much	much	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	bomb	bomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	before	before	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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It was made of pure gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:34-the-second-world-war:t10:o2:1
# text = It was made of pure gold
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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One bomb could destroy a whole city

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:34-the-second-world-war:t10:o3:1
# text = One bomb could destroy a whole city
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	bomb	bomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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It could only hit ships at sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:34-the-second-world-war:t10:o4:1
# text = It could only hit ships at sea
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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