Population and cities, sentence 10
About 8.2 billion people live on Earth in 2026, compared with perhaps about 400 million around 1337.
Who acts: billion people · What happens: live, compare · To what, where: Earth
This is a sentence of the lesson «Population and cities» of the geography 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 billion | advmod |
| 2 | 8.2 | 8.2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 billion | compound |
| 3 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 people | nummod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 live | nsubj |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Earth | case |
| 7 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 live | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 2026 | case |
| 9 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 live | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 compared | punct |
| 11 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 live | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 million | case |
| 13 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 16 million | advmod |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 million | advmod |
| 15 | 400 | 400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 million | compound |
| 16 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 compared | obl |
| 17 | around | around | ADP | _ | 18 1337 | case |
| 18 | 1337 | 1337 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 million | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | billion people | Earth | in 2026 | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2026=Location | |||
| 2 | compare | participle | billion people not said here | with 400 million around 1337 | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with million=Co-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.
Licence: CC 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:geography:024-population-and-cities.lesson:10.
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): 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.
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