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title: Nevertheless, the Constitutional Court ruled on 4 March 2016 that th… — Moldova · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless, the Constitutional Court ruled on 4 March 2016 that this constitutional change adopted in 2000 regarding the presidential election was unconstitutional, thus reverting the election method of the president to a two-round direct election. Who acts: Constitutional Court, constitutional ch
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# Moldova, sentence 118

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From Wikipedia, [«Moldova»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova), 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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Nevertheless, the Constitutional Court ruled on 4 March 2016 that this constitutional change adopted in 2000 regarding the presidential election was unconstitutional, thus reverting the election method of the president to a two-round direct election.

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**Who acts:** Constitutional Court, constitutional change · **What happens:** rule, adopt, regard, be, revert · **To what, where:** constitutional change, 2000, presidential election, election method

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Moldova». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Constitutional Court, constitutional change), 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:Moldova:118
# text = Nevertheless, the Constitutional Court ruled on 4 March 2016 that this constitutional change adopted in 2000 regarding the presidential election was unconstitutional, thus reverting the election method of the president to a two-round direct election.
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Constitutional	Constitutional	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	constitutional	constitutional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
15	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
18	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	presidential	presidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	unconstitutional	unconstitutional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	reverting	revert	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
35	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past | the Constitutional Court |  |  |  | march | nevertheless *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **adopt** | participle |  | this constitutional change *not said here* |  | 2000 |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **regard** | gerund | this constitutional change *not said here* | the presidential election |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | this constitutional change |  |  |  |  | unconstitutional *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **revert** | gerund | this constitutional change *not said here* | the election method of the president |  |  |  | to a round direct election; thus *property* | 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, «Moldova», 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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