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title: The war ended in Europe in May 1945 and in Asia in August 1945, afte… — The Second World War · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of the lesson «The Second World War» of the history course of Mova
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# The Second World War, sentence 16

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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.

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

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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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:034-the-second-world-war.lesson:16
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 034-the-second-world-war.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	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	1945	1945	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	1945	1945	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
20	atomic	atomic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	bombs	bomb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Hiroshima	Hiroshima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	Nagasaki	Nagasaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
32	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	bomb	bomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
34	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	34	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	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 | **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 |

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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): 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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