--- title: Average life expectancy in the world was about 32 years in 1900 and… — Humanity today: how many we are, how long we liv… · tree and pragmatics description: Average life expectancy in the world was about 32 years in 1900 and is about 73 today, mostly because far fewer children die young; many adults in 1900 lived long lives. Who acts: Average life expectancy, fewer children, many adults. 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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 (Average life expectancy, fewer children, many adults), 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:7 # text = Average life expectancy in the world was about 32 years in 1900 and is about 73 today, mostly because far fewer children die young; many adults in 1900 lived long lives. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Average average ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 expectancy expectancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 32 32 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 1900 1900 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 73 73 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 conj _ _ 17 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:unmarked _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 19 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 22 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ _ 23 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 25 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 1900 1900 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nmod _ _ 31 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 32 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24: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** | past | Average life expectancy in the world | 32 years | | 1900 | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Average life expectancy in the world *not said here* | 73 | | | today | about *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **die** | present | fewer children | | | | | mostly, young *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **live** | past | many adults in 1900 | long lives | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=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:7`. **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): R6-punct-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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