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title: The policy was most strictly enforced in urban areas, while families… — China · tree and pragmatics
description: The policy was most strictly enforced in urban areas, while families from ethnic minorities and rural communities were often exempt from one-child limits. Who acts: families. A sentence of Wikipedia's «China» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# China, sentence 306

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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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The policy was most strictly enforced in urban areas, while families from ethnic minorities and rural communities were often exempt from one-child limits.

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**Who acts:** families · **What happens:** enforce, be · **To what, where:** policy, urban areas, child limits

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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 (families), 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:306
# text = The policy was most strictly enforced in urban areas, while families from ethnic minorities and rural communities were often exempt from one-child limits.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	strictly	strictly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	enforced	enforce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
12	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	minorities	minority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	rural	rural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	often	often	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	exempt	exempt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enforce** | past · passive |  | the policy |  | urban areas |  | strictly *property* | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | families from ethnic minorities and rural communities |  |  | child limits |  | exempt, often *property* | 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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