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title: The secondary schools are Nauru Secondary School and Nauru College. — Nauru · tree and pragmatics
description: The secondary schools are Nauru Secondary School and Nauru College. Who acts: secondary schools. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nauru» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nauru, sentence 243

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From Wikipedia, [«Nauru»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru), 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 secondary schools are Nauru Secondary School and Nauru College.

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**Who acts:** secondary schools · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Nauru Secondary School

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nauru». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (secondary schools), 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:Nauru:243
# text = The secondary schools are Nauru Secondary School and Nauru College.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	secondary	secondary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	Nauru	Nauru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	Secondary	Secondary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	School	School	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Nauru	Nauru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	College	College	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the secondary schools | Nauru Secondary School and Nauru |  |  |  | Nauru *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, «Nauru», 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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