Getting old: how long people and animals live, sentence 14
People live longer where there is clean water, enough food, good doctors and peace; poverty and war shorten lives.
Who acts: People, clean water, poverty · What happens: live, be, shorten · To what, where: lives
This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting old: how long people and animals live» of the religion ethics 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 (People, clean water, poverty), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 live | advmod |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 is | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 is | expl |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | advcl |
| 7 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 water | amod |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 food | punct |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 food | amod |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 water | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 doctors | punct |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 doctors | amod |
| 14 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 water | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 peace | cc |
| 16 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 water | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 shorten | punct |
| 18 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shorten | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 war | cc |
| 20 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 poverty | conj |
| 21 | shorten | shorten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | parataxis |
| 22 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 shorten | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 live | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | People | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | does | present | clean water and enough food and good doctors and peace | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shorten | present | poverty and war | lives | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent life=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:religion-ethics:052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.lesson:14.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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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