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title: There were not enough high-quality secondary colleges to answer the… — Mauritius · tree and pragmatics
description: There were not enough high-quality secondary colleges to answer the growing demand of primary school leavers who had got through their CPE (Certificate of Primary Education). Who acts: enough quality secondary colleges, primary school leavers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mauritius» with its dependenc
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# Mauritius, sentence 231

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From Wikipedia, [«Mauritius»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius), 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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There were not enough high-quality secondary colleges to answer the growing demand of primary school leavers who had got through their CPE (Certificate of Primary Education).

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**Who acts:** enough quality secondary colleges, primary school leavers · **What happens:** not be, answer, grow, get, demand, certificate · **To what, where:** growing demand, CPE, primary school leavers, Primary

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mauritius». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enough quality secondary colleges, primary school leavers), 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:Mauritius:231
# text = There were not enough high-quality secondary colleges to answer the growing demand of primary school leavers who had got through their CPE (Certificate of Primary Education).
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	quality	quality	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	secondary	secondary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	colleges	college	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	demand	demand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	primary	primary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	leavers	leaver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	CPE	cpe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Certificate	certificate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Primary	Primary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	Education	Education	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **be** | past | enough quality secondary colleges |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | enough quality secondary colleges *not said here* | the growing demand of primary school leavers |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent demand=Eventuality |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | past · perfect | primary school leavers |  |  | leavers's CPE |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through cpe=Destination |
| 5 | **demand** |  |  | primary school leavers |  |  |  |  | nom demand «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **certificate** |  |  | Primary |  |  |  |  | nom certificate «communication 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, «Mauritius», 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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