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title: Scientific research and development remains important in British uni… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: Scientific research and development remains important in British universities, with many establishing science parks to facilitate production and co-operation with industry. Who acts: many. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Kingdom» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United Kingdom, sentence 359

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From Wikipedia, [«United Kingdom»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom), 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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Scientific research and development remains important in British universities, with many establishing science parks to facilitate production and co-operation with industry.

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**Who acts:** many · **What happens:** establish, facilitate · **To what, where:** science parks, production

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «United Kingdom». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many), 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:United_Kingdom:359
# text = Scientific research and development remains important in British universities, with many establishing science parks to facilitate production and co-operation with industry.
1	Scientific	scientific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	research	research	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	conj	_	_
6	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	universities	university	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
13	establishing	establish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	parks	park	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	facilitate	facilitate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
18	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	co-operation	co-operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | gerund | many | science parks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **facilitate** | to-infinitive | many *not said here* | production and co-operation |  |  |  | with industry | tree rules |

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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, «United Kingdom», 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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