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title: Following the lower secondary pupils may attend additional schooling… — Bern · tree and pragmatics
description: Following the lower secondary pupils may attend additional schooling or they may enter an apprenticeship. Who acts: Following, pupils. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bern» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bern, sentence 223

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From Wikipedia, [«Bern»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bern), 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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Following the lower secondary pupils may attend additional schooling or they may enter an apprenticeship.

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**Who acts:** Following, pupils · **What happens:** follow, attend, enter · **To what, where:** secondary pupils, additional schooling, apprenticeship

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bern». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Following, pupils), 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:Bern:223
# text = Following the lower secondary pupils may attend additional schooling or they may enter an apprenticeship.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	lower	low	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	secondary	secondary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	additional	additional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	schooling	schooling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	apprenticeship	apprenticeship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  | the secondary pupils |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pupil=Theme |
| 2 | **attend** | may | Following | additional schooling |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme schooling=Goal |
| 3 | **enter** | may | pupils *= pupil* | a apprenticeship |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme apprenticeship=Destination |

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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, «Bern», 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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