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title: In the survey, more than 20% of people said that sexual relations be… — Singapore · tree and pragmatics
description: In the survey, more than 20% of people said that sexual relations between adults of the same sex were not wrong at all or not wrong most of the time, up from 10% in 2013. Who acts: sexual relations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Singapore» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Singapore, sentence 312

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From Wikipedia, [«Singapore»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore), 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 the survey, more than 20% of people said that sexual relations between adults of the same sex were not wrong at all or not wrong most of the time, up from 10% in 2013.

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**Who acts:** sexual relations · **What happens:** say, not be · **To what, where:** survey, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Singapore». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sexual relations), 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:Singapore:312
# text = In the survey, more than 20% of people said that sexual relations between adults of the same sex were not wrong at all or not wrong most of the time, up from 10% in 2013.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	survey	survey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	7	advmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
13	sexual	sexual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
15	between	between	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	sex	sex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	obl	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
29	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	up	up	ADV	RB	_	11	ccomp	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  | the survey |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in survey=Manner |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | sexual relations between adults of the same sex |  |  | all |  | most of the time *obl*; wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **be** |  | sexual relations between adults of the same sex *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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, «Singapore», 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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