--- title: In 1950 women had about five children on average; now the world aver… — Humanity today: how many we are, how long we liv… · tree and pragmatics description: In 1950 women had about five children on average; now the world average is about 2.2, because fewer children die and more girls go to school. Who acts: women, world average, fewer children, more girls. 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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 (women, world average, fewer children, more girls), 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:10 # text = In 1950 women had about five children on average; now the world average is about 2.2, because fewer children die and more girls go to school. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1950 1950 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 3 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 average average ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 11 now now ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 average average NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 2.2 2.2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 amod _ _ 21 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 amod _ _ 25 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 . . 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 | **have** | past | women | five children | | 1950 | | on average | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | the world average | 2.2 | | | now | about *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **die** | present | fewer children | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **go** | present | more girls | | | school | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location | 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:078-humanity-today-how-many-how-long-how-rich.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, 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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