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title: The level of poverty in the Comoros is high, but "judging by the int… — Comoros · tree and pragmatics
description: The level of poverty in the Comoros is high, but "judging by the international poverty threshold of $1.9 per person per day, only two out of every ten Comorians could be classified as poor, a rate that places the Comoros ahead of other low-income countries and 30 percentage points ahead of other cou
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# Comoros, sentence 200

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From Wikipedia, [«Comoros»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoros), 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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The level of poverty in the Comoros is high, but "judging by the international poverty threshold of $1.9 per person per day, only two out of every ten Comorians could be classified as poor, a rate that places the Comoros ahead of other low-income countries and 30 percentage points ahead of other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa."

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**Who acts:** level, that · **What happens:** be, judge, classify, place, point · **To what, where:** Comorians, other countries · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Comoros». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (level, that), 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:Comoros:200
# text = The level of poverty in the Comoros is high, but "judging by the international poverty threshold of $1.9 per person per day, only two out of every ten Comorians could be classified as poor, a rate that places the Comoros ahead of other low-income countries and 30 percentage points ahead of other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Comoros	Comoros	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	judging	judge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	$	$	SYM	$	_	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	1.9	1.9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
22	per	per	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	per	per	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	appos	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	det	_	_
32	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	compound	_	_
33	Comorians	Comorian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	classified	classify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	parataxis	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
43	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	Comoros	Comoros	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	_
46	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
48	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
49	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	income	income	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
54	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	56	nummod	_	_
55	percentage	percentage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	conj	_	_
57	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nmod	_	_
61	in	in	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	Sub-Saharan	Sub-Saharan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	63	compound	_	_
63	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the level of poverty in the Comoros |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **judge** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | by the international poverty threshold; two out every ten rate and places *appos* | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **classify** *in a quote* | could · passive |  | Comorians |  |  |  | as poor | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as poor=Attribute |
| 4 | **place** *in a quote* |  | that |  |  |  |  | of other income countries and 30 percentage points of other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa; the Comoros *appos* | tree rules |
| 5 | **point** *in a quote* |  |  | other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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, «Comoros», 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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