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title: In practice, the committee typically approves a slate of candidates… — China · tree and pragmatics
description: In practice, the committee typically approves a slate of candidates created by existing party leadership. Who acts: committee. A sentence of Wikipedia's «China» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# China, sentence 186

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From Wikipedia, [«China»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China), 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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In practice, the committee typically approves a slate of candidates created by existing party leadership.

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**Who acts:** committee · **What happens:** approve, create, exist · **To what, where:** slate, practice, candidates, party leadership

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «China». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (committee), 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:China:186
# text = In practice, the committee typically approves a slate of candidates created by existing party leadership.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	committee	committee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	typically	typically	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	approves	approve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	slate	slate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	candidates	candidate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	existing	exist	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	leadership	leadership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approve** | present | the committee | a slate of candidates |  | practice |  | typically *property* | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slate=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **create** | participle |  | candidates *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **exist** | gerund |  | party leadership |  |  |  |  | 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, «China», 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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