--- title: Although the educational system is similar to the Portuguese system,… — Cape Verde · tree and pragmatics description: Although the educational system is similar to the Portuguese system, over the years the local universities have been increasingly adopting the American educational system; for instance, all ten existing universities offer four-year bachelor's degree programmes as opposed to five-year bachelor's degr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cape_Verde/276/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Cape Verde](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cape_Verde/) / 276 # Cape Verde, sentence 276 From Wikipedia, [«Cape Verde»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde), 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. Although the educational system is similar to the Portuguese system, over the years the local universities have been increasingly adopting the American educational system; for instance, all ten existing universities offer four-year bachelor's degree programmes as opposed to five-year bachelor's degree programmes that existed before 2010. **Who acts:** educational system, local universities, ten existing universities, degree programmes, year bachelor · **What happens:** be, adopt, exist, offer, oppose, programme · **To what, where:** American educational system, degree programmes, 2010 This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cape Verde». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (educational system, local universities, ten existing universities, degree programmes), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Cape_Verde:276 # text = Although the educational system is similar to the Portuguese system, over the years the local universities have been increasingly adopting the American educational system; for instance, all ten existing universities offer four-year bachelor's degree programmes as opposed to five-year bachelor's degree programmes that existed before 2010. 1 Although although SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 educational educational ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 similar similar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Portuguese Portuguese PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 12 over over ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 universities university NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 18 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 19 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 aux _ _ 20 increasingly increasingly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 adopting adopt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 acl:relcl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 educational educational ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 instance instance NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 31 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 32 existing exist VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 amod _ _ 33 universities university NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 offer offer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 35 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 bachelor bachelor NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 degree degree NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 programmes programme NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 42 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 51 case _ _ 43 opposed oppose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 fixed _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 42 fixed _ _ 45 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 47 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 bachelor bachelor NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 49 's 's PART POS _ 48 case _ _ 50 degree degree NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 51 programmes programme NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 52 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 53 nsubj _ _ 53 existed exist VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 51 acl:relcl _ _ 54 before before ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 2010 2010 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 53 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the educational system | | | | year | to the Portuguese system; for instance; similar *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **adopt** | present · perfect · progressive | the local universities | the American educational system | | | | increasingly *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent system=Theme | | 3 | **exist** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **offer** | present | all ten existing universities | year bachelor's degree programmes | | | | as year bachelor's degree programmes | vn volunteer-95.4 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent programme=Pivot as programme=Attribute | | 5 | **oppose** | participle | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **exist** | past | year bachelor's degree programmes | | | 2010 | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before 2010=Location | | 7 | **programme** | | year bachelor | | | | | | nom programme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **programme** | | year bachelor | | | | | | nom programme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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, «Cape Verde», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 275](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cape_Verde/275/) - next →: [sentence 277](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cape_Verde/277/) - ↑ back to [Cape Verde](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Cape_Verde/)