Population and cities, sentence 11
India and China are the two most populous countries, each with about 1.4 billion people, and India overtook China around 2023.
Who acts: India · What happens: be, overtake · To what, where: two populous countries, China, 2023
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 (India), 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 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 countries | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 China | cc |
| 3 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 India | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 countries | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 countries | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 countries | nummod |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 populous | advmod |
| 8 | populous | populous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 countries | amod |
| 9 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 each | punct |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 countries | appos |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 billion | advmod |
| 14 | 1.4 | 1.4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | 15 billion | compound |
| 15 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 people | nummod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 each | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 overtook | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 overtook | cc |
| 19 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 overtook | nsubj |
| 20 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 countries | conj |
| 21 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 overtook | obj |
| 22 | around | around | ADP | _ | 23 2023 | case |
| 23 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 overtook | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 countries | 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 | is a | present | India and China | the two populous countries | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | overtake | past | India | China | 2023 | tree rules |
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:11.
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): R5-strong ×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.
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