--- title: According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, between 20… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics description: According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, between 2006 and 2016, poverty decreased from 36.7% to 22.5% and annual per capita GDP growth was 1.5 percent (as compared to 0.6 percent over the prior two decades). Who acts: poverty. 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According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, between 2006 and 2016, poverty decreased from 36.7% to 22.5% and annual per capita GDP growth was 1.5 percent (as compared to 0.6 percent over the prior two decades). **Who acts:** poverty · **What happens:** accord, decrease, be, compare · **To what, where:** poverty, 1.5 percent This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ecuador». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poverty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:Ecuador:10 # text = According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, between 2006 and 2016, poverty decreased from 36.7% to 22.5% and annual per capita GDP growth was 1.5 percent (as compared to 0.6 percent over the prior two decades). 1 According accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 case _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Center Center PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Economic Economic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 Policy Policy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 9 Research Research PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 between between ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 2006 2006 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nmod:unmarked _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 2016 2016 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 poverty poverty NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 17 decreased decrease VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 36.7 36.7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 22.5 22.5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 annual annual NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 per per ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 capita capita NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 GDP gdp NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 1.5 1.5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 32 nummod _ _ 32 percent percent NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 compared compare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 0.6 0.6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 percent percent NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 over over ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 prior prior ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 42 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 43 decades decade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **decrease** | participle | | poverty *not said here* | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Patient from %=Initial\_State to %=Result | | 3 | **is a** | past | poverty | 1.5 percent | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **compare** | participle | | 1.5 percent *not said here* | | | decade | to 0.6 percent | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Ecuador», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ecuador/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ecuador/11/) - ↑ back to [Ecuador](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ecuador/)