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title: Degradation of care practices, limited access to medical services, i… — Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: Degradation of care practices, limited access to medical services, inadequate hygiene practices, and a lack of food diversity were said to explain these levels. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guinea, sentence 320

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From Wikipedia, [«Guinea»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea), 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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Degradation of care practices, limited access to medical services, inadequate hygiene practices, and a lack of food diversity were said to explain these levels.

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**What happens:** say, explain, degrade, lack · **To what, where:** lack, levels, Degradation, care practices, food diversity · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Guinea». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Guinea:320
# text = Degradation of care practices, limited access to medical services, inadequate hygiene practices, and a lack of food diversity were said to explain these levels.
1	Degradation	degradation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	practices	practice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	limited	limited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	medical	medical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	inadequate	inadequate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	hygiene	hygiene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	practices	practice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	diversity	diversity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	levels	level	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | a lack of food diversity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | this levels |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent level=Topic |
| 4 | **degrade** |  |  | care practices |  |  |  |  | nom degradation «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **lack** |  |  | food diversity |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state 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, «Guinea», 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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