Humanity today: how many we are, how long we live, how poor and how rich, sentence 11

About 3 in 10 people in Japan are over 65, while in Niger about half the people are younger than 15; where there are many old people, fewer young workers have to support more people who have stopped working.

Who acts: 3 10 people, people, many old people, fewer young workers, more people · What happens: be, have, support, stop, work · To what, where: 65, Niger, more people

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 (3 10 people, people, many old people, fewer young workers), 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	About	about	ADV	_	2 3	advmod
2	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 people	nummod
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 10	case
4	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 people	nummod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 65	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Japan	case
7	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 people	nmod
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 65	cop
9	over	over	ADV	_	10 65	advmod
10	65	65	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Niger	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 younger	mark
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Niger	case
14	Niger	Niger	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 younger	obl
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 half	advmod
16	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	18 people	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 people	det
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 younger	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 younger	cop
20	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 65	advcl
21	than	than	ADP	_	22 15	case
22	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 younger	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 are	punct
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 are	advmod
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 are	expl
26	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 Niger	parataxis
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 people	amod
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 people	amod
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 are	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 have	punct
31	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 workers	amod
32	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 workers	amod
33	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 have	nsubj
34	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 are	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 support	mark
36	support	support	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 have	xcomp
37	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 people	amod
38	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 support	obj
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 stopped	nsubj
40	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 stopped	aux
41	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 people	acl:relcl
42	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 stopped	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 65	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	3 10 people in Japan	65		over property	tree rules
2	is	present	half people		Niger	than 15; young property	tree rules
3	does	present	many old people		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	present	fewer young workers				tree rules
5	support	to-infinitive	fewer young workers not said here	more people			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
6	stop	present · perfect	more people				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
7	work	gerund	more people not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:11.

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. 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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