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title: The dropout rate for Lima is lower than the national average, except… — Lima · tree and pragmatics
description: The dropout rate for Lima is lower than the national average, except for elementary school, which is higher. Who acts: dropout rate, elementary school. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lima» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lima, sentence 470

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From Wikipedia, [«Lima»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima), 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 dropout rate for Lima is lower than the national average, except for elementary school, which is higher.

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**Who acts:** dropout rate, elementary school · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lima». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dropout rate, elementary school), 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:Lima:470
# text = The dropout rate for Lima is lower than the national average, except for elementary school, which is higher.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dropout	dropout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Lima	Lima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	average	average	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	except	except	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	elementary	elementary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the dropout rate for Lima |  |  |  |  | than the national average and elementary school; low *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | elementary school |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |

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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, «Lima», 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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