--- title: Ask a class «is the world getting better?» and it splits in half, an… — Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, a… · tree and pragmatics description: Ask a class «is the world getting better?» and it splits in half, and both halves can bring real evidence: fewer children die, more go to school and fewer people are very poor than ever before, yet the planet is warming, many wild animal numbers have fallen, and wars, including Russia's invasion of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, sp…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/) / 0 # Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?, sentence 0 Ask a class «is the world getting better?» and it splits in half, and both halves can bring real evidence: fewer children die, more go to school and fewer people are very poor than ever before, yet the planet is warming, many wild animal numbers have fallen, and wars, including Russia's invasion of Ukraine, still destroy lives. **Who acts:** you, world, halves, fewer children, fewer people, planet · **What happens:** ask, get, split, bring, die, go · **To what, where:** class, half, real evidence, school, lives, Ukraine · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?» 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 (you, world, halves, fewer children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:079-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better.lesson:0 # text = Ask a class «is the world getting better?» and it splits in half, and both halves can bring real evidence: fewer children die, more go to school and fewer people are very poor than ever before, yet the planet is warming, many wild animal numbers have fallen, and wars, including Russia's invasion of Ukraine, still destroy lives. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 079-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better.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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 3 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 1 punct _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 ccomp _ _ 9 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 xcomp _ _ 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 splits split VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 14 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 halves half NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 23 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 amod _ _ 27 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:parataxis 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 31 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 amod _ _ 36 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 very very ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ _ 40 than than SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 42 advmod _ _ 42 before before ADV RB _ 39 advcl _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 44 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 planet planet NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 47 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 warming warm VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 49 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 50 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 51 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 52 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 compound _ _ 53 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 nsubj _ _ 54 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 55 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 ccomp _ _ 56 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=58:punct 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 68 cc _ _ 58 wars war NOUN NNS Number=Plur 68 nsubj _ _ 59 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 60 including include ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 61 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 63 nmod:poss _ _ 62 's 's PART POS _ 61 case _ _ 63 invasion invasion NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl 64 of of ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 65 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 63 nmod _ _ 66 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 67 still still ADV RB _ 68 advmod _ _ 68 destroy destroy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 69 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 68 obj _ _ 70 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | a class | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent class=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **get** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the world | | | | | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **split** | present | world | | | half | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **bring** | can | both halves | real evidence | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme | | 5 | **die** | present | fewer children | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **go** | present | fewer children *not said here* | | | school | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **is** | present | fewer people | | | | | poor *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **warm** | present · progressive | the planet | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **fall** | present · perfect | many wild animal numbers | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **destroy** | present | wars include Russia's invasion of Ukraine | lives | | | still | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | | 11 | **invade** | | Russia | Ukraine | | | | | nom invasion «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | 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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