Humanity today: how many we are, how long we live, how poor and how rich, sentence 7

Average life expectancy in the world was about 32 years in 1900 and is about 73 today, mostly because far fewer children die young; many adults in 1900 lived long lives.

Who acts: Average life expectancy, fewer children, many adults · What happens: be, die, live · To what, where: 32 years, 1900, 73, long lives

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 (Average life expectancy, fewer children, many adults), 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	Average	average	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 expectancy	amod
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 expectancy	compound
3	expectancy	expectancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 years	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 world	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 expectancy	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 years	cop
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 32	advmod
9	32	32	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 1900	case
12	1900	1900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 years	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 73	cc
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 73	cop
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 73	advmod
16	73	73	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 1900	conj
17	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 73	nmod:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 years	punct
19	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	24 die	advmod
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 die	mark
21	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 fewer	advmod
22	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 children	amod
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 die	nsubj
24	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 years	advcl
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 die	xcomp
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 lived	punct
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 adults	amod
28	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 lived	nsubj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 1900	case
30	1900	1900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 adults	nmod
31	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 years	parataxis
32	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 lives	amod
33	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 lived	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 years	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Average life expectancy in the world	32 years	1900			tree rules
2	is a	present	Average life expectancy in the world not said here	73		today	about property	tree rules
3	die	present	fewer children				mostly, young property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	live	past	many adults in 1900	long lives				vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=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: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): R6-punct-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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