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title: English is used in foreign trade, in diplomacy, in higher courts, an… — Tanzania · tree and pragmatics
description: English is used in foreign trade, in diplomacy, in higher courts, and as a medium of instruction in secondary and higher education. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tanzania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tanzania, sentence 17

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From Wikipedia, [«Tanzania»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania), 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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English is used in foreign trade, in diplomacy, in higher courts, and as a medium of instruction in secondary and higher education.

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**What happens:** use · **To what, where:** English, foreign trade

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tanzania». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Tanzania:17
# text = English is used in foreign trade, in diplomacy, in higher courts, and as a medium of instruction in secondary and higher education.
1	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	diplomacy	diplomacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	medium	medium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	instruction	instruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	secondary	secondary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · passive |  | English |  | foreign trade |  | in diplomacy; in higher courts; as a medium of instruction in secondary and higher education | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as medium=Attribute |

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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, «Tanzania», 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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