Madagascar, sentence 160
From Wikipedia, «Madagascar», 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.
Education became mandatory between the ages of 6 and 13, focusing primarily on the French language and practical skills.
Who acts: Education · What happens: become, focus · To what, where: mandatory
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Madagascar». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Education), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 | Education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 became | nsubj |
| 2 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mandatory | mandatory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 became | xcomp |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 ages | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ages | det |
| 6 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 became | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 6 | case |
| 8 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 ages | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 13 | cc |
| 10 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 6 | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 focusing | punct |
| 12 | focusing | focus | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 became | advcl |
| 13 | primarily | primarily | ADV | _ | 12 focusing | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 language | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 language | det |
| 16 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 language | amod |
| 17 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 focusing | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 skills | cc |
| 19 | practical | practical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 skills | amod |
| 20 | skills | skill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 language | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Education | mandatory | between the ages of 6 | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | focus | gerund | Education not said here | on the French language and practical skills; primarily property | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on language=Topic |
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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