Mauritius, sentence 231
From Wikipedia, «Mauritius», 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.
There were not enough high-quality secondary colleges to answer the growing demand of primary school leavers who had got through their CPE (Certificate of Primary Education).
Who acts: enough quality secondary colleges, primary school leavers · What happens: not be, answer, grow, get, demand, certificate · To what, where: growing demand, CPE, primary school leavers, Primary
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mauritius». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enough quality secondary colleges, primary school leavers), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 were | advmod |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 colleges | amod |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 quality | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 high | punct |
| 7 | quality | quality | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 colleges | amod |
| 8 | secondary | secondary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 colleges | amod |
| 9 | colleges | college | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 answer | mark |
| 11 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 colleges | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 demand | det |
| 13 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 demand | amod |
| 14 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answer | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 leavers | case |
| 16 | primary | primary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 leavers | amod |
| 17 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leavers | compound |
| 18 | leavers | leaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 demand | nmod |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 got | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 got | aux |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 leavers | acl:relcl |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 CPE | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 CPE | nmod:poss |
| 24 | CPE | cpe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 got | obl |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 Certificate | punct |
| 26 | Certificate | certificate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 CPE | appos |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Primary | case |
| 28 | Primary | Primary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Certificate | nmod |
| 29 | Education | Education | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Primary | flat |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 Certificate | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | past | enough quality secondary colleges | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | enough quality secondary colleges not said here | the growing demand of primary school leavers | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent demand=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | get | past · perfect | primary school leavers | leavers's CPE | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through cpe=Destination | ||||
| 5 | demand | primary school leavers | nom demand «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | certificate | Primary | nom certificate «communication transitive»: 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.
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