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title: Schools in the primary education system are divided into two categor… — Malaysia · tree and pragmatics
description: Schools in the primary education system are divided into two categories: national primary schools, which teach in Malay (i.e.:Sekolah Kebangsaan Sungai Binjai, SK Bukit Tiu), and vernacular schools, which teach in Chinese or Tamil (i.e.:SJK(C) Pin Hwa 2, SJK(T) Bandar Mentakab). Who acts: national p
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# Malaysia, sentence 406

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From Wikipedia, [«Malaysia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia), 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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Schools in the primary education system are divided into two categories: national primary schools, which teach in Malay (i.e.:Sekolah Kebangsaan Sungai Binjai, SK Bukit Tiu), and vernacular schools, which teach in Chinese or Tamil (i.e.:SJK(C) Pin Hwa 2, SJK(T) Bandar Mentakab).

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**Who acts:** national primary schools, vernacular schools · **What happens:** divide, teach · **To what, where:** Schools, two categories, Malay, Chinese Tamil

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Malaysia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (national primary schools, vernacular schools), 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:Malaysia:406
# text = Schools in the primary education system are divided into two categories: national primary schools, which teach in Malay (i.e.:Sekolah Kebangsaan Sungai Binjai, SK Bukit Tiu), and vernacular schools, which teach in Chinese or Tamil (i.e.:SJK(C) Pin Hwa 2, SJK(T) Bandar Mentakab).
1	Schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	primary	primary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	categories	category	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	primary	primary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	teach	teach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Malay	Malay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	20	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Sekolah	Sekolah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Kebangsaan	Kebangsaan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Sungai	Sungai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
27	Binjai	Binjai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	SK	SK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
30	Bukit	Bukit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	Tiu	Tiu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
35	vernacular	vernacular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	teach	teach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	Tamil	Tamil	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	39	obj	_	_
44	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	43	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	SJK	SJK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	49	punct	_	_
51	Pin	Pin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	Hwa	Hwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nmod:unmarked	_	_
53	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	47	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	SJK	SJK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	T	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	57	punct	_	_
59	Bandar	Bandar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	flat	_	_
60	Mentakab	Mentakab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | present · passive |  | Schools in the primary education system |  | two categories  national primary schools |  | SJK  vernacular schools *obl*; Kebangsaan Sungai *conj* | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | national primary schools |  | Malay |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent malay=Recipient |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | vernacular schools | Chinese Tamil |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tamil=Recipient |

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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, «Malaysia», 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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