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title: In 1993, laws were passed to enable elected health boards that repre… — Costa Rica · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1993, laws were passed to enable elected health boards that represented health consumers, social insurance representatives, employers, and social organizations. Who acts: elected health boards. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Costa Rica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Costa Rica, sentence 278

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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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In 1993, laws were passed to enable elected health boards that represented health consumers, social insurance representatives, employers, and social organizations.

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**Who acts:** elected health boards · **What happens:** pass, enable, elect, represent · **To what, where:** laws, 1993, elected health boards, health consumers

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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 (elected health boards), 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:278
# text = In 1993, laws were passed to enable elected health boards that represented health consumers, social insurance representatives, employers, and social organizations.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1993	1993	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	enable	enable	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
10	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	boards	board	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	represented	represent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	consumers	consumer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	insurance	insurance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	representatives	representative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	employers	employer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	organizations	organization	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · passive |  | laws |  | 1993 |  | social organizations *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **enable** | to-infinitive |  | elected health boards |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **elect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **represent** | past | elected health boards | health consumers and social insurance representatives and employers |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot consumer=Theme |

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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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