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title: As of 2017, one in four young people attended university and one-thi… — Cape Verde · tree and pragmatics
description: As of 2017, one in four young people attended university and one-third of students opted for fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Who acts: young people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Verde» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Verde, sentence 289

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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.

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As of 2017, one in four young people attended university and one-third of students opted for fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

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**Who acts:** young people · **What happens:** attend, opt · **To what, where:** university, students

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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 (young people), 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:Cape_Verde:289
# text = As of 2017, one in four young people attended university and one-third of students opted for fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	attended	attend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	university	university	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	opted	opt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	technology	technology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	engineering	engineering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	mathematics	mathematics	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attend** | past | young people | university and one third of students and mathematics |  |  |  | as 2017 | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme university=Goal |
| 2 | **opt** | participle |  | students *not said here* |  |  |  | for fields of science and technology and engineering | 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, «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.

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