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title: About 8 billion people live on Earth, in about 195 countries; a coun… — Countries, peoples and languages of the world · tree and pragmatics
description: About 8 billion people live on Earth, in about 195 countries; a country has its own borders, its own government and its own symbols, such as a flag and an anthem. Who acts: billion people, country. A sentence of the lesson «Countries, peoples and languages of the world» of the world course of Mova's
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# Countries, peoples and languages of the world, sentence 0

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About 8 billion people live on Earth, in about 195 countries; a country has its own borders, its own government and its own symbols, such as a flag and an anthem.

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**Who acts:** billion people, country · **What happens:** live, have · **To what, where:** Earth, own borders

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Countries, peoples and languages of the world» of the world 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 (billion people, country), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:046-countries-peoples-languages.lesson:0
# text = About 8 billion people live on Earth, in about 195 countries; a country has its own borders, its own government and its own symbols, such as a flag and an anthem.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 046-countries-peoples-languages.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nummod
3	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	195	195	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	symbols	symbol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	32	case	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	anthem	anthem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **live** | present | billion people |  |  | Earth |  | in 195 countries | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
| 2 | **have** | present | a country | its own borders and its own government and its own symbols |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent border=Patient |

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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:world:046-countries-peoples-languages.lesson:0`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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