Population and cities, sentence 13
Since about 2007 more than half the world's people have lived in towns and cities.
Who acts: people · What happens: live · To what, where: 2007, towns
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 (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 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 12 lived | mark |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 2007 | advmod |
| 3 | 2007 | 2007 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 lived | obl |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 6 half | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 more | fixed |
| 6 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 10 people | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 people | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 world | case |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lived | aux |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 towns | case |
| 14 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lived | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cities | cc |
| 16 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 towns | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lived | 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 · perfect | the world's people | 2007 | towns and cities | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location |
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:13.
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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