Taiwan, sentence 540
From Wikipedia, «Taiwan», 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.
In 2015, Taiwanese students achieved one of the world's best results in mathematics, science and literacy, as tested by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), with the average student scoring 519, compared with the OECD average of 493, placing it seventh in the world.
Who acts: Taiwanese students, average student, world · What happens: achieve, test, score, compare, place, result · To what, where: one, 2015, 519, Programme, mathematics
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Taiwan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Taiwanese students, average student, world), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2015 | case |
| 2 | 2015 | 2015 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 achieved | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2015 | punct |
| 4 | Taiwanese | Taiwanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 students | amod |
| 5 | students | student | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 achieved | nsubj |
| 6 | achieved | achieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 achieved | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 results | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 results | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 world | case |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 results | amod |
| 13 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 mathematics | case |
| 15 | mathematics | mathematics | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 results | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 science | punct |
| 17 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mathematics | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 literacy | cc |
| 19 | literacy | literacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mathematics | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tested | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 tested | mark |
| 22 | tested | test | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 achieved | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 Programme | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Programme | det |
| 25 | Programme | programme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tested | obl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 Assessment | case |
| 27 | International | International | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Assessment | amod |
| 28 | Student | Student | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Assessment | compound |
| 29 | Assessment | Assessment | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Programme | nmod |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 PISA | punct |
| 31 | PISA | PISA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Assessment | appos |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 PISA | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 student | punct |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 student | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 student | det |
| 36 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 student | amod |
| 37 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Programme | conj |
| 38 | scoring | score | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 student | acl |
| 39 | 519 | 519 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 scoring | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 compared | punct |
| 41 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 Programme | acl |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 average | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 average | det |
| 44 | OECD | OECD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 average | compound |
| 45 | average | average | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 compared | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 493 | case |
| 47 | 493 | 493 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 45 average | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 placing | punct |
| 49 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 tested | advcl |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 placing | obj |
| 51 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 placing | xcomp |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 world | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 world | det |
| 54 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 seventh | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 achieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | achieve | past | Taiwanese students | one of the world's best results in mathematics and science and literacy | 2015 | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | test | participle | Taiwanese students not said here | by the Programme for International Student Assessment and the average student | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | score | gerund | the average student not said here | 519 | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 519=Theme | ||||
| 4 | compare | participle | the Programme for International Student Assessment and the average student not said here | with the OECD average of 493 | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with average=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | place | gerund | Taiwanese students not said here | mathematics | seventh property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 6 | result | the world | mathematics and science and literacy | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Taiwan», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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