Humanity today: how many we are, how long we live, how poor and how rich, sentence 10

In 1950 women had about five children on average; now the world average is about 2.2, because fewer children die and more girls go to school.

Who acts: women, world average, fewer children, more girls · What happens: have, be, die, go · To what, where: five children, 1950, 2.2, school

This is a sentence of the lesson «Humanity today: how many we are, how long we live, how poor and how rich» 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 (women, world average, fewer children, more girls), 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	_	2 1950	case
2	1950	1950	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 had	obl
3	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 five	advmod
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 children	nummod
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 average	case
9	average	average	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 2.2	punct
11	now	now	ADV	_	17 2.2	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 average	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 average	compound
14	average	average	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 2.2	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 2.2	cop
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 2.2	advmod
17	2.2	2.2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 had	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 die	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 die	mark
20	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 children	amod
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 die	nsubj
22	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 2.2	advcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 go	cc
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 girls	amod
25	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 go	nsubj
26	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 die	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 school	case
28	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	women	five children	1950		on average	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	is a	present	the world average	2.2		now	about property	tree rules
3	die	present	fewer children					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	go	present	more girls		school			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_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:078-humanity-today-how-many-how-long-how-rich.lesson:10.

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, 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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