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title: Soybeans are a common staple nationally made into products such as t… — China · tree and pragmatics
description: Soybeans are a common staple nationally made into products such as tofu and soy sauce. Who acts: Soybeans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «China» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# China, sentence 410

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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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Soybeans are a common staple nationally made into products such as tofu and soy sauce.

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**Who acts:** Soybeans · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** common staple, products

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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 (Soybeans), 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:410
# text = Soybeans are a common staple nationally made into products such as tofu and soy sauce.
1	Soybeans	soybean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	staple	staple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	nationally	nationally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	products	product	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	tofu	tofu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	soy	soy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	sauce	sauce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Soybeans | a common staple |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a common staple *not said here* |  | products such tofu and soy sauce |  | nationally *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into product=Product |

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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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