Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?, sentence 0

Ask a class «is the world getting better?» and it splits in half, and both halves can bring real evidence: fewer children die, more go to school and fewer people are very poor than ever before, yet the planet is warming, many wild animal numbers have fallen, and wars, including Russia's invasion of Ukraine, still destroy lives.

Who acts: you, world, halves, fewer children, fewer people, planet · What happens: ask, get, split, bring, die, go · To what, where: class, half, real evidence, school, lives, Ukraine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?» 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 (you, world, halves, fewer children), 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	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 class	det
3	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	1 Ask	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 getting	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 getting	nsubj
8	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Ask	ccomp
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 getting	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ask	punct
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Ask	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 splits	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 splits	nsubj
14	splits	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 half	case
16	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	14 splits	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bring	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bring	cc
19	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	20 halves	det
20	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bring	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 bring	aux
22	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	conj
23	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 evidence	amod
24	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bring	obj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 die	punct
26	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 children	amod
27	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 die	nsubj
28	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 go	punct
30	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 go	advmod
31	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 die	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 school	case
33	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 poor	cc
35	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 people	amod
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 poor	nsubj
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 poor	cop
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 poor	advmod
39	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 go	conj
40	than	than	SCONJ	_	42 before	mark
41	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	42 before	advmod
42	before	before	ADV	_	39 poor	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 warming	punct
44	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	48 warming	cc
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 planet	det
46	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 warming	nsubj
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 warming	aux
48	warming	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Ask	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 fallen	punct
50	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 numbers	amod
51	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 numbers	amod
52	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 numbers	compound
53	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 fallen	nsubj
54	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 fallen	aux
55	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Ask	ccomp
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 destroy	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 destroy	cc
58	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 destroy	nsubj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 invasion	punct
60	including	include	ADP	_	63 invasion	case
61	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 invasion	nmod:poss
62	's	's	PART	_	61 Russia	case
63	invasion	invasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 wars	nmod
64	of	of	ADP	_	65 Ukraine	case
65	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 invasion	nmod
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 destroy	punct
67	still	still	ADV	_	68 destroy	advmod
68	destroy	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	conj
69	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 destroy	obj
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ask	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	a class				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent class=Recipient clause=Topic
2	get in a quote	present · progressive	the world				good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	split	present	world		half			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	bring	can	both halves	real evidence				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme
5	die	present	fewer children					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	go	present	fewer children not said here		school			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location
7	is	present	fewer people				poor property	tree rules
8	warm	present · progressive	the planet					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	fall	present · perfect	many wild animal numbers					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	destroy	present	wars include Russia's invasion of Ukraine	lives		still		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient
11	invade		Russia	Ukraine				nom invasion «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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:079-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better.lesson:0.

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 ×5, 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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