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title: A pupil at this level of literacy can read ahead or backwards throug… — Lesotho · tree and pragmatics
description: A pupil at this level of literacy can read ahead or backwards through parts of text to link and interpret information. Who acts: pupil. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lesotho» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lesotho, sentence 255

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From Wikipedia, [«Lesotho»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesotho), 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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A pupil at this level of literacy can read ahead or backwards through parts of text to link and interpret information.

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**Who acts:** pupil · **What happens:** read, link, interpret · **To what, where:** parts, information

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lesotho». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pupil), 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:Lesotho:255
# text = A pupil at this level of literacy can read ahead or backwards through parts of text to link and interpret information.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	literacy	literacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	10	conj	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	link	link	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	interpret	interpret	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | can | a pupil at this level of literacy |  |  | parts of text |  | ahead *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **link** | to-infinitive | a pupil at this level of literacy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **interpret** | infinitive | a pupil at this level of literacy *not said here* | information |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent information=Theme |

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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, «Lesotho», 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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