--- title: In 2004, the government began offering alternative education to out-… — Philippines · tree and pragmatics description: In 2004, the government began offering alternative education to out-of-school children, youth, and adults to improve literacy; madaris were mainstreamed in 16 regions that year, primarily in Mindanao Muslim areas under the Department of Education. Who acts: government, adults. 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In 2004, the government began offering alternative education to out-of-school children, youth, and adults to improve literacy; madaris were mainstreamed in 16 regions that year, primarily in Mindanao Muslim areas under the Department of Education. **Who acts:** government, adults · **What happens:** begin, offer, improve, mainstream · **To what, where:** 2004, alternative education, school children, literacy, madaris, 16 regions This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Philippines». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (government, adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:Philippines:387 # text = In 2004, the government began offering alternative education to out-of-school children, youth, and adults to improve literacy; madaris were mainstreamed in 16 regions that year, primarily in Mindanao Muslim areas under the Department of Education. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 2004 2004 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 offering offer VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 xcomp _ _ 8 alternative alternative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 education education NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 11 out out ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 improve improve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 24 literacy literacy NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 madaris madaris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 mainstreamed mainstream VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 regions region NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 det _ _ 33 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 primarily primarily ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 Mindanao Mindanao PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 38 Muslim Muslim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 areas area NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 40 under under ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 Department Department PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 Education Education PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | the government | | | 2004 | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **offer** | gerund | the government *not said here* | alternative education | school children and youth | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent education=Theme to child=Goal | | 3 | **improve** | to-infinitive | adults | literacy | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent literacy=Patient | | 4 | **mainstream** | past · passive | | madaris | | 16 regions that year | | in Mindanao Muslim areas under the Department of Education | tree rules | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Philippines», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 386](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Philippines/386/) - next →: [sentence 388](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Philippines/388/) - ↑ back to [Philippines](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Philippines/)