--- title: People live much longer than in 1900, mostly because far fewer babie… — Humanity today: how many we are, how long we liv… · tree and pragmatics description: People live much longer than in 1900, mostly because far fewer babies and small children die, but where you are born still matters a lot: a child in Japan can expect to live about 30 years longer than a child in Chad. Who acts: People, fewer babies, child. 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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 (People, fewer babies, child), 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:2 # text = People live much longer than in 1900, mostly because far fewer babies and small children die, but where you are born still matters a lot: a child in Japan can expect to live about 30 years longer than a child in Chad. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 much much ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 2 advmod _ _ 5 than than ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 1900 1900 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 9 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 11 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 12 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 amod _ _ 13 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 17 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc 20 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 23 advmod _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 advcl _ _ 24 still still ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj 28 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 expect expect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 parataxis _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 about about ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 38 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:obl 40 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ _ 41 than than ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 Chad Chad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | People | | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **die** | present | fewer babies and small children | | | | | mostly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **bear** | present · passive | | you | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **matter** | present | People *not said here* | a lot | | | still | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **expect** | can | a child in Japan | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **live** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a child in Japan *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:2`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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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