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title: The wealthier portion of the population usually send their children… — Zimbabwe · tree and pragmatics
description: The wealthier portion of the population usually send their children to independent schools as opposed to the government-run schools which are attended by the majority as these are subsidised by the government. Who acts: wealthier portion, majority, government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zimbabwe» wi
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# Zimbabwe, sentence 477

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From Wikipedia, [«Zimbabwe»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe), 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 wealthier portion of the population usually send their children to independent schools as opposed to the government-run schools which are attended by the majority as these are subsidised by the government.

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**Who acts:** wealthier portion, majority, government · **What happens:** send, oppose, attend, subsidis · **To what, where:** children, independent schools, run schools

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Zimbabwe». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wealthier portion, majority, government), 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:Zimbabwe:477
# text = The wealthier portion of the population usually send their children to independent schools as opposed to the government-run schools which are attended by the majority as these are subsidised by the government.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wealthier	wealthy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
15	opposed	oppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	fixed	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	obl	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	subsidised	subsidis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present | the wealthier portion of the population | investments's children |  | independent schools |  | usually *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to school=Destination |
| 2 | **oppose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **attend** | present · passive | the majority | the run schools |  |  |  | as these | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Goal |
| 4 | **subsidis** | present · passive | the government | the run schools |  |  |  |  | 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, «Zimbabwe», 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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