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title: Pre-university education takes place at either Junior Colleges (JCs)… — Singapore · tree and pragmatics
description: Pre-university education takes place at either Junior Colleges (JCs) or the Millennia Institute (MI), over a period of two and three years respectively. Who acts: Pre-university education. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Singapore» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Singapore, sentence 454

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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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Pre-university education takes place at either Junior Colleges (JCs) or the Millennia Institute (MI), over a period of two and three years respectively.

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**Who acts:** Pre-university education · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** place, Junior Colleges

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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 (Pre-university education), 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:454
# text = Pre-university education takes place at either Junior Colleges (JCs) or the Millennia Institute (MI), over a period of two and three years respectively.
1	Pre-university	pre-university	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	Junior	junior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Colleges	college	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	JCs	JCs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Millennia	Millennia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Institute	Institute	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	MI	MI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
28	respectively	respectively	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | Pre-university education | place |  | either Junior Colleges |  | over a period of two three years | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at college=Asset |

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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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