--- title: A megacity has more than 10 million people, and there are now over 3… — Population and cities · tree and pragmatics description: A megacity has more than 10 million people, and there are now over 30 of them, most in Asia, including Tokyo, Delhi, Shanghai, Dhaka, São Paulo, Cairo and Lagos. Who acts: megacity, 30. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (megacity, 30), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:024-population-and-cities.lesson:14 # text = A megacity has more than 10 million people, and there are now over 30 of them, most in Asia, including Tokyo, Delhi, Shanghai, Dhaka, São Paulo, Cairo and Lagos. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 024-population-and-cities.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): R5-strong ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 megacity megacity NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 7 advmod _ _ 5 than than ADP IN _ 4 fixed _ _ 6 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 compound _ _ 7 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 12 expl _ _ 12 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod 14 over over ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nsubj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 obl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 including include ADP VBG _ 24 case _ _ 24 Tokyo Tokyo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Delhi Delhi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Shanghai Shanghai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Dhaka Dhaka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 São São PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 33 Paulo Paulo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 flat _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 Cairo Cairo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 Lagos Lagos PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a megacity | million people | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 2 | **be** | present | 30 of people | most in Asia and Tokyo and Delhi and Shanghai and Dhaka and São and Cairo and Lagos | | there | now | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:geography:024-population-and-cities.lesson:14`. **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): R5-strong ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Population and cities, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/24-population-and-cities/13/) - next →: [Population and cities, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/24-population-and-cities/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/24-population-and-cities/)