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title: In general, knowledge of vertebrates and flowering plants is better… — Australia · tree and pragmatics
description: In general, knowledge of vertebrates and flowering plants is better than for invertebrates and fungi. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Australia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Australia, sentence 180

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From Wikipedia, [«Australia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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In general, knowledge of vertebrates and flowering plants is better than for invertebrates and fungi.

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**What happens:** flower, be · **To what, where:** general knowledge

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Australia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Australia:180
# text = In general, knowledge of vertebrates and flowering plants is better than for invertebrates and fungi.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	vertebrates	vertebrate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	flowering	flower	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	invertebrates	invertebrate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	fungi	fungus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flower** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | general knowledge of vertebrates and flowering plants |  | than invertebrates and fungi; good *property* | tree rules |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Australia», 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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