--- title: People live longer where there is clean water, enough food, good doc… — Getting old: how long people and animals live · tree and pragmatics description: People live longer where there is clean water, enough food, good doctors and peace; poverty and war shorten lives. Who acts: People, clean water, poverty. A sentence of the lesson «Getting old: how long people and animals live» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/52-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live/14/) [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/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Getting old: how long people and anima…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/52-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live/) / 14 # Getting old: how long people and animals live, sentence 14 People live longer where there is clean water, enough food, good doctors and peace; poverty and war shorten lives. **Who acts:** People, clean water, poverty · **What happens:** live, be, shorten · **To what, where:** lives This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting old: how long people and animals live» of the religion ethics 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 (People, clean water, poverty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.lesson:14 # text = People live longer where there is clean water, enough food, good doctors and peace; poverty and war shorten lives. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 2 advmod _ _ 4 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 6 advmod _ _ 5 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 6 expl _ _ 6 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 7 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 poverty poverty NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 shorten shorten VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 22 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | People | | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **does** | present | clean water and enough food and good doctors and peace | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **shorten** | present | poverty and war | lives | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent life=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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. 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