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title: It is mostly dual carriageway and has been steadily upgraded since 2… — Tallinn · tree and pragmatics
description: It is mostly dual carriageway and has been steadily upgraded since 2012 to meet rising traffic demands. Who acts: ringroad. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tallinn» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tallinn, sentence 299

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From Wikipedia, [«Tallinn»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallinn), 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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It is mostly dual carriageway and has been steadily upgraded since 2012 to meet rising traffic demands.

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**Who acts:** ringroad · **What happens:** be, upgrade, meet, rise · **To what, where:** dual carriageway, traffic demands

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tallinn». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ringroad), 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:Tallinn:299
# text = It is mostly dual carriageway and has been steadily upgraded since 2012 to meet rising traffic demands.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	dual	dual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	carriageway	carriageway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	steadily	steadily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	upgraded	upgrade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	since	since	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	demands	demand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | ringroad | dual carriageway |  |  |  | mostly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **upgrade** | present · perfect · passive | ringroad *not said here* |  |  |  | since 2012 | steadily *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | ringroad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rise** | gerund | ringroad *not said here* | traffic demands |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location demand=Theme |

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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, «Tallinn», 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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