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title: Many wild animal populations have fallen since 1970; experts argue a… — Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many wild animal populations have fallen since 1970; experts argue about exactly how much. Who acts: Many wild animal populations, experts. 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 with i
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# Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?, sentence 14

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Many wild animal populations have fallen since 1970; experts argue about exactly how much.

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**Who acts:** Many wild animal populations, experts · **What happens:** fall, argue

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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 (Many wild animal populations, experts), 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:14
# text = Many wild animal populations have fallen since 1970; experts argue about exactly how much.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	populations	population	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	since	since	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1970	1970	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	experts	expert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | Many wild animal populations |  |  |  | since 1970 |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | experts |  |  |  |  | about much | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about much=Topic |

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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:079-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better.lesson:14`.

**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): 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.

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

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