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title: The country uses the United States dollar, producing its own coins t… — Timor-Leste · tree and pragmatics
description: The country uses the United States dollar, producing its own coins to facilitate smaller transactions. Who acts: country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Timor-Leste» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Timor-Leste, sentence 231

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From Wikipedia, [«Timor-Leste»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timor-Leste), 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 country uses the United States dollar, producing its own coins to facilitate smaller transactions.

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**Who acts:** country · **What happens:** use, produce, facilitate, coin · **To what, where:** States dollar, own coins, smaller transactions

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Timor-Leste». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country), 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:Timor-Leste:231
# text = The country uses the United States dollar, producing its own coins to facilitate smaller transactions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	producing	produce	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	facilitate	facilitate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	transactions	transaction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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 | the country | the States dollar |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Patient |
| 2 | **produce** | gerund | the country *not said here* | country's own coins |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Result |
| 3 | **facilitate** | to-infinitive | the country *not said here* | smaller transactions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **coin** |  | country |  |  |  |  |  | nom coin «possession transitive»: 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, «Timor-Leste», 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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