Population and cities, sentence 19

The median age splits the people in half, half younger and half older; in Niger it is under 16, and in Japan it is about 49.

Who acts: median age, age · What happens: split, be · To what, where: people, half, 16, 49

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 (median age, age), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 age	det
2	median	median	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 age	amod
3	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 splits	nsubj
4	splits	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 splits	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 half	case
8	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 people	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 half	punct
10	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	11 younger	advmod
11	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 half	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 older	cc
13	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	14 older	advmod
14	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 younger	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 Niger	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 Niger	case
17	Niger	Niger	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 splits	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 16	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 16	cop
20	under	under	ADP	_	21 16	case
21	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 Niger	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Japan	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 Japan	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 Japan	case
25	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Niger	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 49	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 49	cop
28	about	about	ADV	_	29 49	advmod
29	49	49	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 Japan	flat
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 splits	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	split	present	the median age	the people	half		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
2	is	present	age		16		tree rules
3	is a	present	age	49		about property	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:19.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

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