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title: There have been substantial improvements in access to water supply,… — Morocco · tree and pragmatics
description: There have been substantial improvements in access to water supply, and to a lesser extent to sanitation, over the past fifteen years. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Morocco» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Morocco, sentence 425

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From Wikipedia, [«Morocco»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco), 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 have been substantial improvements in access to water supply, and to a lesser extent to sanitation, over the past fifteen years.

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**What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** access, substantial improvements

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Morocco». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Morocco:425
# text = There have been substantial improvements in access to water supply, and to a lesser extent to sanitation, over the past fifteen years.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
4	substantial	substantial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	improvements	improvement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	supply	supply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	lesser	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	sanitation	sanitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
23	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  |  |  | access to water supply; there |  | a lesser extent to sanitation *parataxis*; the past  fifteen years *parataxis* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | participle |  | substantial improvements |  |  |  |  | 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, «Morocco», 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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