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title: If the whole world were a class of 100 children, about 18 would be f… — Humanity today: how many we are, how long we liv… · tree and pragmatics
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# Humanity today: how many we are, how long we live, how poor and how rich, sentence 0

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If the whole world were a class of 100 children, about 18 would be from India, about 17 from China, about 10 would be very poor, about 8 would not get enough food, and 3 or 4 would live in a country they were not born in; numbers like these turn «the world» into people you could meet.

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**Who acts:** whole world, 10, 8, 3, country, numbers · **What happens:** be, not get, live, not bear in, turn, meet · **To what, where:** class, India, enough food, country, children, world

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Humanity today: how many we are, how long we live, how poor and how rich» 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 (whole world, 10, 8, 3), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:078-humanity-today-how-many-how-long-how-rich.lesson:0
# text = If the whole world were a class of 100 children, about 18 would be from India, about 17 from China, about 10 would be very poor, about 8 would not get enough food, and 3 or 4 would live in a country they were not born in; numbers like these turn «the world» into people you could meet.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 078-humanity-today-how-many-how-long-how-rich.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): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	appos	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	about	about	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nsubj	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
36	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
40	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	44	nsubj	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	conj	_	_
43	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux:pass	_	_
50	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
51	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	acl:relcl	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	obl	_	_
53	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	54	punct	_	_
54	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	_
55	like	like	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	54	nmod	_	_
57	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
58	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	60	punct	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
61	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	60	punct	_	_
62	into	into	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obl	_	_
64	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	66	nsubj	_	_
65	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	66	aux	_	_
66	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	63	acl:relcl	_	_
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **is a** | past | the whole world | a class |  |  |  | of 100 children | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | would |  |  |  | India |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | would | 10 |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **get** | would | 8 | enough food |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus |
| 5 | **live** | would | 3 |  |  | a country |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
| 6 | **not** **bear in** | past · passive | a country *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **turn** | present | numbers like these | the world |  |  |  | into people *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent world=Theme into people=Result |
| 8 | **meet** | could | you | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-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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**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): no change. **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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