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title: Malta had the second highest voter turnout in the world (and the hig… — Malta · tree and pragmatics
description: Malta had the second highest voter turnout in the world (and the highest for nations without mandatory voting), based on election turnout in national lower house elections from 1960 to 1995. Who acts: Malta. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malta» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malta, sentence 183

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From Wikipedia, [«Malta»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta), 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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Malta had the second highest voter turnout in the world (and the highest for nations without mandatory voting), based on election turnout in national lower house elections from 1960 to 1995.

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**Who acts:** Malta · **What happens:** have, base · **To what, where:** second highest voter turnout, world, mandatory voting, election turnout

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Malta». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Malta), 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:Malta:183
# text = Malta had the second highest voter turnout in the world (and the highest for nations without mandatory voting), based on election turnout in national lower house elections from 1960 to 1995.
1	Malta	Malta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
5	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
6	voter	voter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	turnout	turnout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	without	without	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	mandatory	mandatory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	voting	voting	NOUN	NN	_	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	turnout	turnout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	1960	1960	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	1995	1995	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Malta | the second highest voter turnout |  | the world |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turnout=Patient |
| 2 | **base** | participle |  | mandatory voting *not said here* |  | election turnout in national lower house elections from 1960 to 1995 |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on turnout=Source |

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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, «Malta», 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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