Republic of the Congo, sentence 179
From Wikipedia, «Republic of the Congo», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Public education is theoretically free and mandatory for under-16-year-olds but in practice educational expenses must be borne by parents.
Who acts: Public education, parents · What happens: be, bear · To what, where: educational expenses, practice
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Republic of the Congo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Public education, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 education | amod |
| 2 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 free | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 free | cop |
| 4 | theoretically | theoretically | ADV | _ | 5 free | advmod |
| 5 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mandatory | cc |
| 7 | mandatory | mandatory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 free | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 olds | case |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 16 | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 under | punct |
| 11 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 olds | nummod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 16 | punct |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 olds | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 year | punct |
| 15 | olds | old | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 free | obl |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 borne | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 practice | case |
| 18 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 borne | obl |
| 19 | educational | educational | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 expenses | amod |
| 20 | expenses | expense | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 borne | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 borne | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 borne | aux:pass |
| 23 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 free | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 parents | case |
| 25 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 borne | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 free | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Public education | for 16 year olds; free, theoretically property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | must · passive | parents | educational expenses | practice | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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.
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