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title: The government stated that this was done in order to "prevent the ri… — Moldova · tree and pragmatics
description: The government stated that this was done in order to "prevent the risk of disinformation or attempts to manipulate public opinion". Who acts: government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Moldova» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Moldova, sentence 472

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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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The government stated that this was done in order to "prevent the risk of disinformation or attempts to manipulate public opinion".

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**Who acts:** government · **What happens:** state, do, prevent, manipulate, risk · **To what, where:** this, order, risk, public opinion, disinformation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:Moldova:472
# text = The government stated that this was done in order to "prevent the risk of disinformation or attempts to manipulate public opinion".
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stated	state	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	risk	risk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	disinformation	disinformation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	attempts	attempt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	manipulate	manipulate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
21	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | past | the government |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | past · passive |  | this |  | order |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **prevent** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the risk of disinformation or attempts |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer risk=Theme |
| 4 | **manipulate** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | public opinion |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient |
| 5 | **risk** *in a quote* |  |  | disinformation |  |  |  |  | nom risk «state 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, «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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