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title: The average life expectancy was 76.7 in 2012, higher than for any ot… — United Arab Emirates · tree and pragmatics
description: The average life expectancy was 76.7 in 2012, higher than for any other Arab country. Who acts: average life expectancy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Arab Emirates» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United Arab Emirates, sentence 508

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From Wikipedia, [«United Arab Emirates»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates), 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 average life expectancy was 76.7 in 2012, higher than for any other Arab country.

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**Who acts:** average life expectancy · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 76.7, 2012

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «United Arab Emirates». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (average life expectancy), 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:United_Arab_Emirates:508
# text = The average life expectancy was 76.7 in 2012, higher than for any other Arab country.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	expectancy	expectancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	76.7	76.7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	appos	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the average life expectancy | 76.7 |  | 2012 |  |  | 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, «United Arab Emirates», 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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