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title: It is estimated that there are currently over 1.5 million children w… — Burkina Faso · tree and pragmatics
description: It is estimated that there are currently over 1.5 million children who are at risk of food insecurity in Burkina Faso, with around 350,000 children who are in need of emergency medical assistance. Who acts: million children, 350,000 children. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Burkina Faso» with its depende
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# Burkina Faso, sentence 450

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From Wikipedia, [«Burkina Faso»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkina_Faso), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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It is estimated that there are currently over 1.5 million children who are at risk of food insecurity in Burkina Faso, with around 350,000 children who are in need of emergency medical assistance.

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**Who acts:** million children, 350,000 children · **What happens:** estimate, be · **To what, where:** level, risk, need

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Burkina Faso». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (million children, 350,000 children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Burkina_Faso:450
# text = It is estimated that there are currently over 1.5 million children who are at risk of food insecurity in Burkina Faso, with around 350,000 children who are in need of emergency medical assistance.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	estimated	estimate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	currently	currently	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	1.5	1.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
10	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	risk	risk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	insecurity	insecurity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Burkina	Burkina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	Faso	Faso	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	around	around	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	350,000	350000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	medical	medical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **estimate** | present · passive |  | level |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **does** | present | million children |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | million children |  |  | risk and 350,000 children |  | of food insecurity in Burkina; 350,000 children *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | 350,000 children |  |  | need |  | of emergency medical assistance | tree rules |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Burkina Faso», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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