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title: Canada's official bilingualism policies give citizens the right to r… — Canada · tree and pragmatics
description: Canada's official bilingualism policies give citizens the right to receive federal government services in either English or French with official-language minorities guaranteed their own schools in all provinces and territories. Who acts: official bilingualism policies, right. A sentence of Wikipedia
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# Canada, sentence 301

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From Wikipedia, [«Canada»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada), 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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Canada's official bilingualism policies give citizens the right to receive federal government services in either English or French with official-language minorities guaranteed their own schools in all provinces and territories.

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**Who acts:** official bilingualism policies, right · **What happens:** give, receive, guarantee · **To what, where:** citizens, federal government services, English, own schools, provinces

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Canada». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (official bilingualism policies, right), 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:Canada:301
# text = Canada's official bilingualism policies give citizens the right to receive federal government services in either English or French with official-language minorities guaranteed their own schools in all provinces and territories.
1	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	bilingualism	bilingualism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	policies	policy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc:preconj	_	_
17	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nmod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	minorities	minority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
25	guaranteed	guarantee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Canada's official bilingualism policies | citizens |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent citizen=Theme |
| 2 | **receive** | to-infinitive | the right *not said here* | federal government services |  | English |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent service=Theme in english=Location |
| 3 | **guarantee** | past | the right | rights's own schools |  | all provinces and territories |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition school=Theme |

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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, «Canada», 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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