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description: The UN says the world reached 8 billion people on 15 November 2022 and expects about 10.3 billion at the peak in the 2080s, after which the number should slowly fall. Who acts: UN, world, number. A sentence of the lesson «Humanity today: how many we are, how long we live, how poor and how rich» of t
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# Humanity today: how many we are, how long we live, how poor and how rich, sentence 5

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The UN says the world reached 8 billion people on 15 November 2022 and expects about 10.3 billion at the peak in the 2080s, after which the number should slowly fall.

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**Who acts:** UN, world, number · **What happens:** say, reach, expect, fall · **To what, where:** billion people, 15, 10.3 billion, peak · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (UN, world, number), 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:5
# text = The UN says the world reached 8 billion people on 15 November 2022 and expects about 10.3 billion at the peak in the 2080s, after which the number should slowly fall.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	_
8	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
12	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
13	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	expects	expect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	10.3	10.3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	18	compound	_	_
18	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	2080s	2080s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the UN |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **reach** | past | the world | billion people |  | 15  November |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 3 | **expect** | present | the world *not said here* | 10.3 billion |  | the peak in the 2080s |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** | should | the number |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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

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