Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every age and of today, sentence 7
Cities of more than 10 million people are called megacities, and there are now more than 30 of them.
Who acts: 30 · What happens: call, be · To what, where: Cities · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every age and of today» 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 (30), 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 | Cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 people | case |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 6 million | advmod |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 3 more | fixed |
| 5 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 million | compound |
| 6 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 people | nummod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cities | nmod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | aux:pass |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | megacities | megacity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 called | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 are | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 are | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 are | expl |
| 14 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | conj |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 are | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 18 30 | advmod |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 more | fixed |
| 18 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 are | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 30 | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | 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 | call | present · passive | Cities of million people | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | be | present | 30 of people | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:074-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today.lesson:7.
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): no change. 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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