--- title: Two articles in the Economist in July 2020 raised doubts about offic… — Tanzania · tree and pragmatics description: Two articles in the Economist in July 2020 raised doubts about official claims of economic growth: "If Tanzania's economy grew by almost 7% in the fiscal year to the end of June 2019, why did tax revenue fall by 1%? Who acts: Two articles, economy. 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Two articles in the Economist in July 2020 raised doubts about official claims of economic growth: "If Tanzania's economy grew by almost 7% in the fiscal year to the end of June 2019, why did tax revenue fall by 1%? **Who acts:** Two articles, economy · **What happens:** raise, grow, do, claim · **To what, where:** doubts, revenue fall, economic growth 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: who acts (Two articles, economy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:428 # text = Two articles in the Economist in July 2020 raised doubts about official claims of economic growth: "If Tanzania's economy grew by almost 7% in the fiscal year to the end of June 2019, why did tax revenue fall by 1%? 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 articles article NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Economist Economist PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 July July PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 2020 2020 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nmod:unmarked _ _ 9 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 doubts doubt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 about about ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 claims claim NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 economic economic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 If if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 Tanzania Tanzania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 economy economy NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 almost almost ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 fiscal fiscal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 June June PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 2019 2019 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 40 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 41 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 revenue revenue NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 44 by by ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 46 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **raise** | past | Two articles in the Economist in July 2020 | doubts | | | | about official claims of economic growth | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | Tanzania's economy | | | | to the end of June; year | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient by %=Extent to end=Result | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Tanzania's economy *not said here* | revenue fall | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=Eventuality | | 4 | **claim** | | | economic growth | | | | | nom claim «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 427](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tanzania/427/) - next →: [sentence 429](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tanzania/429/) - ↑ back to [Tanzania](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tanzania/)