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title: Rugby is popular among the nation's schools, and students from schoo… — Tonga · tree and pragmatics
description: Rugby is popular among the nation's schools, and students from schools such as Tonga College and Tupou College are regularly offered scholarships in New Zealand, Australia and Japan. Who acts: Rugby. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tonga» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tonga, sentence 260

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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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Rugby is popular among the nation's schools, and students from schools such as Tonga College and Tupou College are regularly offered scholarships in New Zealand, Australia and Japan.

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**Who acts:** Rugby · **What happens:** be, offer · **To what, where:** students

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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 (Rugby), 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:260
# text = Rugby is popular among the nation's schools, and students from schools such as Tonga College and Tupou College are regularly offered scholarships in New Zealand, Australia and Japan.
1	Rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
11	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	Tonga	Tonga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	College	College	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Tupou	Tupou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	College	College	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	regularly	regularly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
24	scholarships	scholarship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
27	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Rugby |  |  |  |  | among the nation's schools; popular *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **offer** | present · passive |  | students from schools such Tonga College and Tupou |  |  |  | scholarships *obj*; regularly *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal scholarship=Theme |

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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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