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description: Extreme poverty has fallen from most of humanity around 1820 to about 1 person in 10 today, and both halves of that sentence matter: huge progress, and hundreds of millions still very poor. Who acts: Extreme poverty. A sentence of the lesson «Humanity today: how many we are, how long we live, how po
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# Humanity today: how many we are, how long we live, how poor and how rich, sentence 3

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Extreme poverty has fallen from most of humanity around 1820 to about 1 person in 10 today, and both halves of that sentence matter: huge progress, and hundreds of millions still very poor.

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**Who acts:** Extreme poverty · **What happens:** fall · **To what, where:** most

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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 (Extreme poverty), 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:3
# text = Extreme poverty has fallen from most of humanity around 1820 to about 1 person in 10 today, and both halves of that sentence matter: huge progress, and hundreds of millions still very poor.
# 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	Extreme	extreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	humanity	humanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1820	1820	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
17	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	halves	half	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
27	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	progress	progress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	acl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
31	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	still	still	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	very	very	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	parataxis	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **fall** | present · perfect | Extreme poverty |  |  | most of humanity |  | around 1820; to 1 person in 10  today | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from most=Initial\_Location around 1820=Destination |

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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:078-humanity-today-how-many-how-long-how-rich.lesson:3`.

**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): R5-strong ×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.

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

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