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title: The degree of uncertainty as to estimates of sea level change relati… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics
description: The degree of uncertainty as to estimates of sea level change relative to the islands of Tuvalu was reflected in the conclusions made in 2002 from the available data. Who acts: degree. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tuvalu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tuvalu, sentence 183

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From Wikipedia, [«Tuvalu»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvalu), 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 degree of uncertainty as to estimates of sea level change relative to the islands of Tuvalu was reflected in the conclusions made in 2002 from the available data.

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**Who acts:** degree · **What happens:** relative, reflect, make · **To what, where:** change relative, conclusions, 2002

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tuvalu». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (degree), 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:Tuvalu:183
# text = The degree of uncertainty as to estimates of sea level change relative to the islands of Tuvalu was reflected in the conclusions made in 2002 from the available data.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	uncertainty	uncertainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	estimates	estimate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Tuvalu	Tuvalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	conclusions	conclusion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	2002	2002	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	available	available	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	data	data	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relative** |  | the degree of uncertainty |  |  |  |  | as estimates; to the islands of Tuvalu | tree rules |
| 2 | **reflect** | past · passive |  | change relative |  | the conclusions |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | the conclusions *not said here* |  | 2002 |  | from the available data | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from data=Material |

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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, «Tuvalu», 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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