--- title: The World Bank estimates that more than 800 million people in China… — China: modern China, space and contested topics · tree and pragmatics description: The World Bank estimates that more than 800 million people in China left extreme poverty since 1980; in 2021 the government declared extreme poverty ended by its own measure, though by the measures used for richer countries many people are still poor. 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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 (World Bank, million people, government, many people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:059-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics.lesson:10 # text = The World Bank estimates that more than 800 million people in China left extreme poverty since 1980; in 2021 the government declared extreme poverty ended by its own measure, though by the measures used for richer countries many people are still poor. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 059-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Bank Bank PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 estimates estimate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 6 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 7 than than ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 800 800 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 compound _ _ 9 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 14 extreme extreme ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 poverty poverty NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 since since ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 1980 1980 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 2021 2021 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 24 extreme extreme ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 poverty poverty NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 ended end VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 measure measure NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 32 though though SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=44:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 33 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 measures measure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ _ 36 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 richer rich ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 amod _ _ 39 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 40 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ _ 42 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 still still ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 advcl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | the World Bank | | | | | | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Value | | 2 | **leave** | past | million people in China | extreme poverty | | | since 1980 | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poverty=Theme | | 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the government | extreme poverty | | 2021 | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poverty=Attribute | | 4 | **end** | participle | | extreme poverty *not said here* | | | | by government's own measure | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **use** | participle | | the measures *not said here* | | | | for richer countries | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | many people | | | | still | by the measures; poor *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **measure** | | government | | | | | | nom measure «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:059-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics.lesson:10`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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. 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