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title: A Tearfund survey in 2007 showed that one Briton in ten attends chur… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: A Tearfund survey in 2007 showed that one Briton in ten attends church weekly. Who acts: Tearfund survey, one. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Kingdom» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United Kingdom, sentence 472

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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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A Tearfund survey in 2007 showed that one Briton in ten attends church weekly.

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**Who acts:** Tearfund survey, one · **What happens:** show, attend · **To what, where:** church · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Tearfund survey, one), 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:472
# text = A Tearfund survey in 2007 showed that one Briton in ten attends church weekly.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Tearfund	tearfund	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	survey	survey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	2007	2007	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
9	Briton	Briton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
12	attends	attend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
13	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	weekly	weekly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | a Tearfund survey in 2007 |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **attend** | present | one in ten | church |  |  |  | weekly *property* | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme church=Goal |

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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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