Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies, sentence 16

In 1900 almost no country let all adults vote; today, depending on how researchers count, between about a third and a half of the world's people live in democracies.

Who acts: country, adults, researchers, third half · What happens: let, vote, depend, count, live · To what, where: 1900, democracies

This is a sentence of the lesson «Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies» 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 (country, adults, researchers, third half), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 country	case
2	1900	1900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 let	obl
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 country	advmod
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 country	det
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	nsubj
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 adults	det
8	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 vote	nsubj
9	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
11	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 live	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 depending	punct
13	depending	depend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 let	conj
14	on	on	SCONJ	_	17 count	mark
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 count	advmod
16	researchers	researcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 count	nsubj
17	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 depending	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 live	punct
19	between	between	ADP	_	25 half	case
20	about	about	ADP	_	25 half	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 third	det
22	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 half	amod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 half	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 half	det
25	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	31 live	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 people	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 world	det
28	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 people	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 world	case
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 half	nmod
31	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 count	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 democracies	case
33	democracies	democracy	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 live	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	let	past	no country	1900			tree rules
2	vote	infinitive	all adults				vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	depend	gerund	no country not said here				vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	count	present	researchers				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
5	live	present	a third half of the world's people		democracies	today	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in democracy=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:history:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:16.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3. 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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