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title: Access to schooling was expanded in coastal areas during the colonia… — Madagascar · tree and pragmatics
description: Access to schooling was expanded in coastal areas during the colonial period, with French language and basic work skills becoming the focus of the curriculum. Who acts: basic work skills. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madagascar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madagascar, sentence 485

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From Wikipedia, [«Madagascar»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar), 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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Access to schooling was expanded in coastal areas during the colonial period, with French language and basic work skills becoming the focus of the curriculum.

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**Who acts:** basic work skills · **What happens:** expand, become, focus · **To what, where:** Access, coastal areas, focus, curriculum

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Madagascar». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (basic work skills), 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:Madagascar:485
# text = Access to schooling was expanded in coastal areas during the colonial period, with French language and basic work skills becoming the focus of the curriculum.
1	Access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	schooling	schooling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	expanded	expand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	during	during	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	basic	basic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	skills	skill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	focus	focus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	curriculum	curriculum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expand** | past · passive |  | Access to schooling |  | coastal areas | during the colonial period | French language and basic work skills *parataxis* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | gerund | basic work skills *not said here* | the focus of the curriculum |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **focus** |  |  | the curriculum |  |  |  |  | nom focus «cognition 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, «Madagascar», 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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