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title: The percentage of the government's budget allocated to education was… — Solomon Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: The percentage of the government's budget allocated to education was 9.7 percent in 1998, down from 13.2 percent in 1990. Who acts: percentage, government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Solomon Islands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Solomon Islands, sentence 371

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From Wikipedia, [«Solomon Islands»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Islands), 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 percentage of the government's budget allocated to education was 9.7 percent in 1998, down from 13.2 percent in 1990.

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**Who acts:** percentage, government · **What happens:** allocate, be, budget · **To what, where:** budget, education, 9.7 percent, 1998

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Solomon Islands». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (percentage, government), 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:Solomon_Islands:371
# text = The percentage of the government's budget allocated to education was 9.7 percent in 1998, down from 13.2 percent in 1990.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	percentage	percentage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	budget	budget	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	allocated	allocate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	9.7	9.7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1998	1998	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	13.2	13.2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allocate** | participle |  | the government's budget *not said here* |  |  |  | to education *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to education=Goal |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the percentage of the government's budget | 9.7 percent |  | 1998 |  | 13.2 percent in 1990 *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **budget** |  | the government |  |  |  |  |  | nom budget «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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, «Solomon Islands», 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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