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title: Processes of privatization in Slovakia began, often criticized for l… — Slovakia · tree and pragmatics
description: Processes of privatization in Slovakia began, often criticized for lack of transparency and corruption. Who acts: Processes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Slovakia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Slovakia, sentence 237

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From Wikipedia, [«Slovakia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia), 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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Processes of privatization in Slovakia began, often criticized for lack of transparency and corruption.

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**Who acts:** Processes · **What happens:** begin, criticize, process, lack · **To what, where:** privatization, transparency

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Slovakia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Processes), 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:Slovakia:237
# text = Processes of privatization in Slovakia began, often criticized for lack of transparency and corruption.
1	Processes	process	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	privatization	privatization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Slovakia	Slovakia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	criticized	criticize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	transparency	transparency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	corruption	corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Processes of privatization in Slovakia |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **criticize** | participle | Processes of privatization in Slovakia *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for lack of transparency and corruption; often *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for lack=Attribute |
| 3 | **process** |  |  | privatization in Slovakia |  |  |  |  | nom process «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **lack** |  |  | transparency and corruption |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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, «Slovakia», 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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