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title: In 2015, Taiwanese students achieved one of the world's best results… — Taiwan · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2015, Taiwanese students achieved one of the world's best results in mathematics, science and literacy, as tested by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), with the average student scoring 519, compared with the OECD average of 493, placing it seventh in the world. Who acts: T
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# Taiwan, sentence 540

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From Wikipedia, [«Taiwan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan), 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 2015, Taiwanese students achieved one of the world's best results in mathematics, science and literacy, as tested by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), with the average student scoring 519, compared with the OECD average of 493, placing it seventh in the world.

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**Who acts:** Taiwanese students, average student, world · **What happens:** achieve, test, score, compare, place, result · **To what, where:** one, 2015, 519, Programme, mathematics

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Taiwan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Taiwanese students, average student, world), 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:Taiwan:540
# text = In 2015, Taiwanese students achieved one of the world's best results in mathematics, science and literacy, as tested by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), with the average student scoring 519, compared with the OECD average of 493, placing it seventh in the world.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Taiwanese	Taiwanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	achieved	achieve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	mathematics	mathematics	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	literacy	literacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	tested	test	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Programme	programme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	International	International	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	Student	Student	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Assessment	Assessment	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	PISA	PISA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
38	scoring	score	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	acl	_	_
39	519	519	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	OECD	OECD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	average	average	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	493	493	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	placing	place	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	xcomp	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **achieve** | past | Taiwanese students | one of the world's best results in mathematics and science and literacy |  | 2015 |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality |
| 2 | **test** | participle | Taiwanese students *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the Programme for International Student Assessment and the average student | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **score** | gerund | the average student *not said here* | 519 |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 519=Theme |
| 4 | **compare** | participle |  | the Programme for International Student Assessment and the average student *not said here* |  |  |  | with the OECD average of 493 | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with average=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **place** | gerund | Taiwanese students *not said here* | mathematics |  |  |  | seventh *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **result** |  | the world |  |  | mathematics and science and literacy |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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, «Taiwan», 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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