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title: The local basketball teams are: — Rabat · tree and pragmatics
description: The local basketball teams are: Who acts: local basketball teams. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rabat» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rabat, sentence 214

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From Wikipedia, [«Rabat»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabat), 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 local basketball teams are:

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**Who acts:** local basketball teams · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Rabat». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (local basketball teams), 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:Rabat:214
# text = The local basketball teams are:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	basketball	basketball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | the local basketball teams |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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, «Rabat», 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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