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title: About 2.3 billion people are Christians, about 2 billion Muslims and… — Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, ches… · tree and pragmatics
description: About 2.3 billion people are Christians, about 2 billion Muslims and about 1.2 billion Hindus, and about 1.9 billion people have no religion, according to a large 2020 count. Who acts: billion people. A sentence of the lesson «Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news» of the histor
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# Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news, sentence 14

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About 2.3 billion people are Christians, about 2 billion Muslims and about 1.2 billion Hindus, and about 1.9 billion people have no religion, according to a large 2020 count.

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**Who acts:** billion people · **What happens:** be, have, accord · **To what, where:** Christians, religion

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news» 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 (billion people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.lesson:14
# text = About 2.3 billion people are Christians, about 2 billion Muslims and about 1.2 billion Hindus, and about 1.9 billion people have no religion, according to a large 2020 count.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
2	2.3	2.3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
10	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	1.2	1.2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
15	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	Hindus	Hindu	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
20	1.9	1.9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	compound	_	_
21	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	case	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:nummod
32	count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | billion people | Christians and billion Muslims and billion Hindus |  |  |  | accord a large 2020 count | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | billion people | no religion |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent religion=Patient |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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:075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.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, 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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