--- title: Population experts (demographers) estimate about 3.5 to 5 million Ho… — The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor · tree and pragmatics description: Population experts (demographers) estimate about 3.5 to 5 million Holodomor deaths in Soviet Ukraine; older figures like 7 or 10 million are not supported by most demographers. Who acts: Population experts, most demographers. 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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 (Population experts, most demographers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:046-the-struggle-of-1917-21-and-the-holodomor.lesson:13 # text = Population experts (demographers) estimate about 3.5 to 5 million Holodomor deaths in Soviet Ukraine; older figures like 7 or 10 million are not supported by most demographers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 046-the-struggle-of-1917-21-and-the-holodomor.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 experts expert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 4 demographers demographer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 appos _ _ 5 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 6 estimate estimate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 8 3.5 3.5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 conj _ _ 11 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 12 Holodomor holodomor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 13 deaths death NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Soviet Soviet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 flat _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 19 figures figure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 compound _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 conj _ _ 24 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nmod _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 supported support VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 amod _ _ 30 demographers demographer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl:agent _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **estimate** | present | Population experts | million Holodomor deaths | | Soviet | | | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent death=Value | | 2 | **not** **support** | present · passive | most demographers | older figures like 7 million | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | 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:history:046-the-struggle-of-1917-21-and-the-holodomor.lesson:13`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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. 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