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title: Coffee production played a key role in Costa Rica's history and in 2… — Costa Rica · tree and pragmatics
description: Coffee production played a key role in Costa Rica's history and in 2006, was the third cash crop export. Who acts: Coffee production. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Costa Rica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Costa Rica, sentence 179

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From Wikipedia, [«Costa Rica»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rica), 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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Coffee production played a key role in Costa Rica's history and in 2006, was the third cash crop export.

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**Who acts:** Coffee production · **What happens:** play, be · **To what, where:** key role, history, third crop export

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Costa Rica». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Coffee production), 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:Costa_Rica:179
# text = Coffee production played a key role in Costa Rica's history and in 2006, was the third cash crop export.
1	Coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	key	key	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	Costa	Costa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Rica	Rica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
19	cash	cash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	export	export	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | Coffee production | a key role |  | Costa Rica's history |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the third crop export |  |  |  |  | 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, «Costa Rica», 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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