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title: Tongans enjoy a relatively high level of education, with a 98.9% lit… — Tonga · tree and pragmatics
description: Tongans enjoy a relatively high level of education, with a 98.9% literacy rate, and higher education up to and including medical and graduate degrees (pursued mostly overseas). Who acts: Tongans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tonga» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tonga, sentence 218

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From Wikipedia, [«Tonga»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonga), 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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Tongans enjoy a relatively high level of education, with a 98.9% literacy rate, and higher education up to and including medical and graduate degrees (pursued mostly overseas).

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**Who acts:** Tongans · **What happens:** enjoy, include, pursue · **To what, where:** high level, medical degrees

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tonga». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tongans), 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:Tonga:218
# text = Tongans enjoy a relatively high level of education, with a 98.9% literacy rate, and higher education up to and including medical and graduate degrees (pursued mostly overseas).
1	Tongans	tongan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	relatively	relatively	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	98.9	98.9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	literacy	literacy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	case	_	_
24	medical	medical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	graduate	graduate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
30	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	overseas	overseas	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enjoy** | present | Tongans | a high level of education |  |  |  | with a literacy rate; higher education *parataxis* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer level=Stimulus |
| 2 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pursue** | participle |  | medical degrees *not said here* |  |  |  | overseas *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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, «Tonga», 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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