Trinidad and Tobago, sentence 457
From Wikipedia, «Trinidad and Tobago», 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.
Children generally start pre-school at two and a half years but this is not mandatory.
Who acts: Children, this · What happens: start, not be · To what, where: pre-school, mandatory
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Trinidad and Tobago». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children, this), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 start | nsubj |
| 2 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 3 start | advmod |
| 3 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | pre-school | pre-school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 start | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 years | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 half | det |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 10 years | compound |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 start | obl |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 mandatory | cc |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 mandatory | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 mandatory | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 mandatory | advmod |
| 15 | mandatory | mandatory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 years | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 start | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Children | pre-school | year | generally property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pre-school=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | not is a | present | this | mandatory | tree rules |
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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