The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor, sentence 13

Population experts (demographers) estimate about 3.5 to 5 million Holodomor deaths in Soviet Ukraine; older figures like 7 or 10 million are not supported by most demographers.

Who acts: Population experts, most demographers · What happens: estimate, not support · To what, where: million Holodomor deaths, Soviet, older figures

This is a sentence of the lesson «The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor» of the history 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 (Population experts, most demographers), 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	Population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 experts	compound
2	experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 estimate	nsubj
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	4 demographers	punct
4	demographers	demographer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 experts	appos
5	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 demographers	punct
6	estimate	estimate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	13 deaths	case
8	3.5	3.5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 million	nummod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 5	case
10	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 3.5	conj
11	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 deaths	nummod
12	Holodomor	holodomor	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 deaths	compound
13	deaths	death	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 estimate	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Soviet	case
15	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 deaths	nmod
16	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Soviet	flat
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 figures	punct
18	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 figures	amod
19	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 supported	nsubj:pass
20	like	like	ADP	_	24 million	case
21	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 million	compound
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 10	cc
23	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 7	conj
24	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 figures	nmod
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 supported	aux:pass
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 supported	advmod
27	supported	support	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 estimate	parataxis
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 demographers	case
29	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 demographers	amod
30	demographers	demographer	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 supported	obl:agent
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 estimate	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	estimate	present	Population experts	million Holodomor deaths		Soviet			vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent death=Value
2	not support	present · passive	most demographers	older figures like 7 million					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus

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:history:046-the-struggle-of-1917-21-and-the-holodomor.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/46-the-struggle-of-1917-21-and-the-holodomor/13/