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title: Other languages also taught as foreign language electives in some un… — Metro Manila · tree and pragmatics
description: Other languages also taught as foreign language electives in some universities and schools in Metro Manila besides those aforementioned are those such as, French, Korean, German, Italian, Thai, Bahasa Indonesia, Portuguese, Russian, etc. Besides Filipino, there are also other newspapers distributed 
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# Metro Manila, sentence 315

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From Wikipedia, [«Metro Manila»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Manila), 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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Other languages also taught as foreign language electives in some universities and schools in Metro Manila besides those aforementioned are those such as, French, Korean, German, Italian, Thai, Bahasa Indonesia, Portuguese, Russian, etc. Besides Filipino, there are also other newspapers distributed across Metro Manila in languages such as Mandarin (i.e. United Daily News, World News, Chinese Commercial News, etc.), Japanese (i.e. Manila Shimbun), Korean (i.e. Manila Seoul, Weekly Manila, Ilyo Shinmun, etc.) to cater to the aforementioned readers.

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**Who acts:** Other languages, those, other newspapers · **What happens:** teach, aforemention, be, distribute, cater · **To what, where:** German, Metro Manila

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Metro Manila». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Other languages, those, other newspapers), 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:Metro_Manila:315
# text = Other languages also taught as foreign language electives in some universities and schools in Metro Manila besides those aforementioned are those such as, French, Korean, German, Italian, Thai, Bahasa Indonesia, Portuguese, Russian, etc. Besides Filipino, there are also other newspapers distributed across Metro Manila in languages such as Mandarin (i.e. United Daily News, World News, Chinese Commercial News, etc.), Japanese (i.e. Manila Shimbun), Korean (i.e. Manila Seoul, Weekly Manila, Ilyo Shinmun, etc.) to cater to the aforementioned readers.
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	electives	elective	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	universities	university	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Metro	Metro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
17	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
18	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
19	aforementioned	aforemention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
21	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	27	mark	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Korean	korean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Italian	Italian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Thai	Thai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	Bahasa	Bahasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	etc.	etc.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
43	Besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Filipino	Filipino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	47	expl	_	_
47	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	advcl	_	_
48	also	also	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
51	distributed	distribute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
52	across	across	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	Metro	Metro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	_
57	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	59	case	_	_
58	as	as	ADP	IN	_	57	fixed	_	_
59	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	_
60	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	64	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	64	advmod	_	_
62	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
63	Daily	Daily	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	News	News	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
66	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	67	compound	_	_
67	News	News	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	71	punct	_	_
69	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	71	amod	_	_
70	Commercial	commercial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	71	amod	_	_
71	News	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	73	punct	_	_
73	etc.	etc.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	71	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	64	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	76	punct	_	_
76	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	parataxis	_	_
77	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	79	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	79	advmod	_	_
79	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	76	appos	_	_
80	Shimbun	Shimbun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	79	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	79	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
82	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	83	punct	_	_
83	Korean	korean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	76	conj	_	_
84	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	87	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
85	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	87	advmod	_	_
86	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	87	compound	_	_
87	Seoul	Seoul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	83	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
88	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	90	punct	_	_
89	Weekly	weekly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	90	amod	_	_
90	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	87	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
91	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	92	punct	_	_
92	Ilyo	Ilyo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	87	conj	_	_
93	Shinmun	Shinmun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	92	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
94	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	95	punct	_	_
95	etc.	etc.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	87	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
96	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	87	punct	_	_
97	to	to	PART	TO	_	98	mark	_	_
98	cater	cater	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	83	advcl	_	_
99	to	to	ADP	IN	_	102	case	_	_
100	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	102	det	_	_
101	aforementioned	aforementioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	102	amod	_	_
102	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	98	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
103	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Other languages | German besides Filipino and Italian and Thai and Bahasa Indonesia and etc. |  | Metro Manila |  | as language electives in some universities and schools | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **aforemention** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | those |  |  |  |  | korean *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | present | other newspapers *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **distribute** | past | other newspapers |  |  | Metro Manila |  | in languages such Mandarin | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **cater** | to-infinitive | other newspapers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the aforementioned readers | tree rules |

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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, «Metro Manila», 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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