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title: The World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2008 found average life expec… — Eritrea · tree and pragmatics
description: The World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2008 found average life expectancy to be slightly less than 63 years, a number that has increased to 66.44 in 2020. Who acts: Health Organisation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Eritrea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Eritrea, sentence 430

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From Wikipedia, [«Eritrea»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrea), 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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The World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2008 found average life expectancy to be slightly less than 63 years, a number that has increased to 66.44 in 2020.

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**Who acts:** Health Organisation · **What happens:** find, be, increase · **To what, where:** average life expectancy, number

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Eritrea». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Health Organisation), 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:Eritrea:430
# text = The World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2008 found average life expectancy to be slightly less than 63 years, a number that has increased to 66.44 in 2020.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Health	Health	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Organisation	Organisation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	WHO	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	expectancy	expectancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	19	advmod	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	63	63	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	66.44	66.44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the Health Organisation in 2008 | average life expectancy |  |  | year | a number *obl* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expectancy=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | less, slightly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **increase** | present · perfect · passive |  | a number |  |  |  | to 66.44 *result*; in 2020 | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: subject=Extent to 66.44=Result in 2020=Attribute |

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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, «Eritrea», 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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