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title: Around 1800 about 4 in 10 children died before age five; today about… — Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 y… · tree and pragmatics
description: Around 1800 about 4 in 10 children died before age five; today about 4 in 100 do. Who acts: 4 10 children, 4. A sentence of the lesson «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 20

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Around 1800 about 4 in 10 children died before age five; today about 4 in 100 do.

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**Who acts:** 4 10 children, 4 · **What happens:** die, do · **To what, where:** 1800

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» 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 (4 10 children, 4), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.lesson:20
# text = Around 1800 about 4 in 10 children died before age five; today about 4 in 100 do.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Around	around	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
2	1800	1800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct
13	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **die** | past | 4 10 children | 1800 |  |  | before age |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **do** | present | 4 in 100 |  |  |  | today |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:history:065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.lesson:20`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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