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title: The government chose Autobuses Urbanos de León (Alsa subsidiary) as… — Malta · tree and pragmatics
description: The government chose Autobuses Urbanos de León (Alsa subsidiary) as its preferred bus operator for the country in October 2014. Who acts: government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malta» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malta, sentence 260

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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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The government chose Autobuses Urbanos de León (Alsa subsidiary) as its preferred bus operator for the country in October 2014.

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**Who acts:** government · **What happens:** choose · **To what, where:** Autobuses

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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 (government), 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:260
# text = The government chose Autobuses Urbanos de León (Alsa subsidiary) as its preferred bus operator for the country in October 2014.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Autobuses	autobus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	Urbanos	Urbanos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	León	León	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Alsa	Alsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	subsidiary	subsidiary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	preferred	preferred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	operator	operator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | the government | Autobuses |  |  |  | as subsidiary's preferred bus operator for the country in October | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent autobus=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, «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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