Humanity today: how many we are, how long we live, how poor and how rich, sentence 5
The UN says the world reached 8 billion people on 15 November 2022 and expects about 10.3 billion at the peak in the 2080s, after which the number should slowly fall.
Who acts: UN, world, number · What happens: say, reach, expect, fall · To what, where: billion people, 15, 10.3 billion, peak · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (UN, world, number), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 UN | det |
| 2 | UN | UN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 world | det |
| 5 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 billion | compound |
| 8 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 people | nummod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 reached | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 15 | case |
| 11 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 reached | obl |
| 12 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 15 | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | 2022 | 2022 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 15 | flat |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 expects | cc |
| 15 | expects | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | conj |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 10.3 | advmod |
| 17 | 10.3 | 10.3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | 18 billion | compound |
| 18 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 expects | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 peak | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 peak | det |
| 21 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 expects | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 2080s | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 2080s | det |
| 24 | 2080s | 2080s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 21 peak | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fall | punct |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 fall | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 number | det |
| 29 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fall | nsubj |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 fall | aux |
| 31 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 32 fall | advmod |
| 32 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 expects | ccomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the UN | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | the world | billion people | 15 November | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||
| 3 | expect | present | the world not said here | 10.3 billion | the peak in the 2080s | tree rules | |||
| 4 | fall | should | the number | slowly property | vn occur-48.3 «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:078-humanity-today-how-many-how-long-how-rich.lesson:5.
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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