Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?, sentence 15

Health, schooling and poverty have improved a lot; climate and nature are worse or at risk; Max Roser says the world is much better, awful, and can be much better, all at once.

Who acts: Health, climate, Max, world · What happens: improve, be, say · To what, where: lot · 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 (Health, climate, Max, world), 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	Health	Health	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 improved	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 schooling	punct
3	schooling	schooling	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Health	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 poverty	cc
5	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Health	conj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 improved	aux
7	improved	improve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lot	det
9	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 improved	obl:unmarked
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 climate	punct
11	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 worse	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 nature	cc
13	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 climate	conj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 worse	cop
15	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 improved	parataxis
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 risk	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 risk	case
18	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 worse	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 says	punct
20	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 says	nsubj
21	Roser	Roser	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Max	flat
22	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 improved	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 better	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 better	cop
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 better	advmod
27	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 says	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 awful	punct
29	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 better	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 better	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 better	cc
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 better	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 better	cop
34	much	much	ADV	_	35 better	advmod
35	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 improved	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 all	punct
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 better	obl
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 once	case
39	once	once	ADV	_	37 all	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 improved	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	improve	present · perfect	Health and schooling and poverty	a lot		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	climate and nature		bad property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	Max			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	the world		good property	tree rules
5	be		the world not said here			tree rules
6	is	can	Health and schooling and poverty not said here		all obl; good property	tree rules

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:15.

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, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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