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title: At the end of the secondary stage, GCE O-Level or GCE N-Level exams… — Singapore · tree and pragmatics
description: At the end of the secondary stage, GCE O-Level or GCE N-Level exams are taken; at the end of the following pre-university stage, the GCE A-Level exams are taken. Who acts: GCE. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Singapore» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Singapore, sentence 459

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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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At the end of the secondary stage, GCE O-Level or GCE N-Level exams are taken; at the end of the following pre-university stage, the GCE A-Level exams are taken.

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**Who acts:** GCE · **What happens:** take, follow · **To what, where:** Level exams, GCE, end

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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 (GCE), 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:459
# text = At the end of the secondary stage, GCE O-Level or GCE N-Level exams are taken; at the end of the following pre-university stage, the GCE A-Level exams are taken.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	secondary	secondary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	GCE	gce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	GCE	GCE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	N	N	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	exams	exam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	amod	_	_
28	pre-university	pre-university	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	GCE	GCE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	exams	exam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present · passive | GCE *not said here* | Level exams |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | present · passive |  | the GCE |  |  | at the end of the secondary stage and GCE of Level or GCE; at the end of the following pre-university stage | Level exams *nsubj:pass* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at end=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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