--- title: The government is struggling to upgrade education and technical trai… — Comoros · tree and pragmatics description: The government is struggling to upgrade education and technical training, to privatise commercial and industrial enterprises, to improve health services, to diversify exports, to promote tourism, and to reduce the high population growth rate. Who acts: government. 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The government is struggling to upgrade education and technical training, to privatise commercial and industrial enterprises, to improve health services, to diversify exports, to promote tourism, and to reduce the high population growth rate. **Who acts:** government · **What happens:** struggle, upgrade, privatise, improve, diversify, promote · **To what, where:** education, commercial enterprises, health services, exports, tourism, population growth rate 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 (government), 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:Comoros:219 # text = The government is struggling to upgrade education and technical training, to privatise commercial and industrial enterprises, to improve health services, to diversify exports, to promote tourism, and to reduce the high population growth rate. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 struggling struggle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 upgrade upgrade VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 education education NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 technical technical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 training training NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 privatise privatise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 14 commercial commercial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 industrial industrial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 17 enterprises enterprise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 improve improve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 21 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 services service NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 diversify diversify VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 26 exports export NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 promote promote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 30 tourism tourism NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 reduce reduce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 36 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 38 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 rate rate NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **struggle** | present · progressive | the government | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **upgrade** | to-infinitive | the government *not said here* | education and technical training | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent education=Theme | | 3 | **privatise** | to-infinitive | the government *not said here* | commercial enterprises | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **improve** | to-infinitive | the government *not said here* | health services | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent service=Patient | | 5 | **diversify** | to-infinitive | the government *not said here* | exports | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent export=Patient | | 6 | **promote** | to-infinitive | the government *not said here* | tourism | | | | | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tourism=Theme | | 7 | **reduce** | to-infinitive | the government *not said here* | the population growth rate | | | | | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer rate=Patient | 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, «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. - ← previous: [sentence 218](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Comoros/218/) - next →: [sentence 220](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Comoros/220/) - ↑ back to [Comoros](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Comoros/)