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title: A 2005 poll found that 78% of Americans did not know residents of Wa… — Washington, D.C. · tree and pragmatics
description: A 2005 poll found that 78% of Americans did not know residents of Washington, D.C., have less representation in Congress than residents of the 50 states. Who acts: 2005 poll. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Washington, D.C.» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Washington, D.C., sentence 415

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From Wikipedia, [«Washington, D.C.»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.), 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 2005 poll found that 78% of Americans did not know residents of Washington, D.C., have less representation in Congress than residents of the 50 states.

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**Who acts:** 2005 poll · **What happens:** find, not know, have · **To what, where:** residents, less representation, Congress · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Washington, D.C.». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (2005 poll), 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:Washington,_D.C.:415
# text = A 2005 poll found that 78% of Americans did not know residents of Washington, D.C., have less representation in Congress than residents of the 50 states.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	2005	2005	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	poll	poll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
6	78	78	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Americans	American	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
13	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Washington	Washington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	D.C.	D.C.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	representation	representation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Congress	Congress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | a 2005 poll |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **know** | past · do-support |  | residents of Washington  D.C. |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer resident=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** | present |  | less representation |  | Congress |  | than residents of the 50 states | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent representation=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, «Washington, D.C.», 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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