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title: Although Turkey needs more national innovation, it is improving in a… — Turkey · tree and pragmatics
description: Although Turkey needs more national innovation, it is improving in areas such as high technology and defense. Who acts: Turkey, TÜBİTAK. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Turkey» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Turkey, sentence 423

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From Wikipedia, [«Turkey»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey), 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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Although Turkey needs more national innovation, it is improving in areas such as high technology and defense.

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**Who acts:** Turkey, TÜBİTAK · **What happens:** need, improve · **To what, where:** more, areas

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Turkey». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Turkey, TÜBİTAK), 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:Turkey:423
# text = Although Turkey needs more national innovation, it is improving in areas such as high technology and defense.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obj	_	_
5	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	innovation	innovation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	improving	improve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	technology	technology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	defense	defense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Turkey | more  national innovation |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme |
| 2 | **improve** | present · progressive | TÜBİTAK *= tübi̇tak* |  |  | areas such high technology and defense |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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, «Turkey», 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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