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title: About 7,000 languages are spoken today, and around 4 in 10 are endan… — What was lost and what was gained: languages, fo… · tree and pragmatics
description: About 7,000 languages are spoken today, and around 4 in 10 are endangered; Māori language nests, kōhanga reo, began in 1982, and Hebrew was revived as an everyday language around 1900. Who acts: 4, Māori language nests. A sentence of the lesson «What was lost and what was gained: languages, foods, m
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# What was lost and what was gained: languages, foods, music and knowledge, sentence 5

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About 7,000 languages are spoken today, and around 4 in 10 are endangered; Māori language nests, kōhanga reo, began in 1982, and Hebrew was revived as an everyday language around 1900.

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**Who acts:** 4, Māori language nests · **What happens:** speak, be, begin, revive · **To what, where:** 7,000 languages, 1982, Hebrew, 1900 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What was lost and what was gained: languages, foods, music and knowledge» 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, Māori language nests), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:077-what-was-lost-and-what-was-gained.lesson:5
# text = About 7,000 languages are spoken today, and around 4 in 10 are endangered; Māori language nests, kōhanga reo, began in 1982, and Hebrew was revived as an everyday language around 1900.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 077-what-was-lost-and-what-was-gained.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	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	7,000	7000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	around	around	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	endangered	endangered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	Māori	Māori	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
17	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	kōhanga	kōhanga	X	FW	_	21	compound	_	_
21	reo	reo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
23	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	1982	1982	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	Hebrew	Hebrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	revived	revive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	everyday	everyday	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	around	around	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	1900	1900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | 7,000 languages |  |  | today |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | 4 in 10 |  |  |  |  | endangered *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Māori language nests |  |  | 1982 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **revive** | past · passive |  | Hebrew |  | 1900 |  | as a everyday language | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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:077-what-was-lost-and-what-was-gained.lesson:5`.

**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.

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

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