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title: In addition, tram advocates have suggested that the new rapid transi… — Moscow · tree and pragmatics
description: In addition, tram advocates have suggested that the new rapid transit services (metro to City, Butovo light metro, Monorail) would be more effective as at-grade tram lines and that the problems with trams are only due to poor management and operation, not the technical properties of trams. Who acts:
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# Moscow, sentence 686

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From Wikipedia, [«Moscow»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow), 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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In addition, tram advocates have suggested that the new rapid transit services (metro to City, Butovo light metro, Monorail) would be more effective as at-grade tram lines and that the problems with trams are only due to poor management and operation, not the technical properties of trams.

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**Who acts:** new rapid transit services, problems · **What happens:** suggest, be · **To what, where:** tram advocates, addition

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Moscow». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new rapid transit services, problems), 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:Moscow:686
# text = In addition, tram advocates have suggested that the new rapid transit services (metro to City, Butovo light metro, Monorail) would be more effective as at-grade tram lines and that the problems with trams are only due to poor management and operation, not the technical properties of trams.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	addition	addition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	tram	tram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	advocates	advocate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	transit	transit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	metro	metro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	Butovo	Butovo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	metro	metro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Monorail	Monorail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
27	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
28	effective	effective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	grade	grade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	tram	tram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	trams	tram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
41	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
42	only	only	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
43	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	46	case	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	fixed	_	_
45	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	management	management	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	operation	operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	53	advmod	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	technical	technical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	properties	property	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	trams	tram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present · perfect · passive |  | tram advocates |  | addition |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | would | the new rapid transit services |  |  |  |  | as grade tram lines and poor management and operation and the technical properties of trams; effective *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the problems with trams |  |  |  |  | due poor management and operation and the technical properties of trams; operation *conj*; the technical properties of trams *conj* | 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, «Moscow», 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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