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title: The median age splits the people in half, half younger and half olde… — Population and cities · tree and pragmatics
description: The median age splits the people in half, half younger and half older; in Niger it is under 16, and in Japan it is about 49. Who acts: median age, age. A sentence of the lesson «Population and cities» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Population and cities, sentence 19

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The median age splits the people in half, half younger and half older; in Niger it is under 16, and in Japan it is about 49.

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**Who acts:** median age, age · **What happens:** split, be · **To what, where:** people, half, 16, 49

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Population and cities» of the geography 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 (median age, age), 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:19
# text = The median age splits the people in half, half younger and half older; in Niger it is under 16, and in Japan it is about 49.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	median	median	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	splits	split	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	11	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac
11	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	14	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:det:predet|HaikuPos=DET:PDT:NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind
14	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Niger	Niger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	about	about	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	49	49	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25: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 | **split** | present | the median age | the people |  | half |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | age |  |  | 16 |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | age | 49 |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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:19`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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