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title: Secondary schools are generally limited to municipal capitals. — Timor-Leste · tree and pragmatics
description: Secondary schools are generally limited to municipal capitals. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Timor-Leste» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Timor-Leste, sentence 354

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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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Secondary schools are generally limited to municipal capitals.

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**What happens:** limit · **To what, where:** Secondary schools, municipal capitals

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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: 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:354
# text = Secondary schools are generally limited to municipal capitals.
1	Secondary	secondary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	limited	limit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	municipal	municipal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	capitals	capital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **limit** | present · passive |  | Secondary schools |  |  |  | to municipal capitals *goal*; generally *property* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Patient to capital=Goal |

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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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