--- title: About 3 in 10 people in Japan are over 65, while in Niger about half… — Humanity today: how many we are, how long we liv… · tree and pragmatics description: About 3 in 10 people in Japan are over 65, while in Niger about half the people are younger than 15; where there are many old people, fewer young workers have to support more people who have stopped working. Who acts: 3 10 people, people, many old people, fewer young workers. 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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 (3 10 people, people, many old people, fewer young workers), 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:11 # text = About 3 in 10 people in Japan are over 65, while in Niger about half the people are younger than 15; where there are many old people, fewer young workers have to support more people who have stopped working. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:case 4 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 over over ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 65 65 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Niger Niger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 18 det:predet _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 advcl _ _ 21 than than ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 26 advmod _ _ 25 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 26 expl _ _ 26 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 amod _ _ 32 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 support support VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 amod _ _ 38 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 40 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 38 acl:relcl _ _ 42 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 xcomp _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | 3 10 people in Japan | 65 | | | | over *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | half people | | | Niger | | than 15; young *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **does** | present | many old people | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | fewer young workers | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **support** | to-infinitive | fewer young workers *not said here* | more people | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | | 6 | **stop** | present · perfect | more people | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **work** | gerund | more people *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. 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