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title: According to Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Ind… — Ghana · tree and pragmatics
description: According to Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index of 2018, out of 180 countries, Ghana was ranked 78th, with a score of 41 on a scale where a 0–9 score means highly corrupt, and a 90–100 score means very clean. Who acts: – score, 90 score. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ghana» with 
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# Ghana, sentence 218

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From Wikipedia, [«Ghana»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana), 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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According to Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index of 2018, out of 180 countries, Ghana was ranked 78th, with a score of 41 on a scale where a 0–9 score means highly corrupt, and a 90–100 score means very clean.

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**Who acts:** – score, 90 score · **What happens:** accord, rank, mean · **To what, where:** Ghana

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ghana». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (– score, 90 score), 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:Ghana:218
# text = According to Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index of 2018, out of 180 countries, Ghana was ranked 78th, with a score of 41 on a scale where a 0–9 score means highly corrupt, and a 90–100 score means very clean.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	Transparency	Transparency	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	International	International	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	Corruption	Corruption	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Perceptions	Perception	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	compound	_	_
8	Index	Index	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	180	180	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	Ghana	Ghana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	ranked	rank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	78th	78th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	41	41	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	36	advmod	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	–	–	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	flat	_	_
35	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
37	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	corrupt	corrupt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
42	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	nmod	_	_
45	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
47	very	very	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rank** | past · passive |  | Ghana |  |  |  | accord Transparency International and Perceptions Index of 2018 and 180 countries; with a score of 41 on a scale; 78th *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | a – score |  |  |  |  | corrupt *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mean** | present | a 90 score |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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, «Ghana», 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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