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title: Costa Rica is the first tropical country to have stopped and reverse… — Costa Rica · tree and pragmatics
description: Costa Rica is the first tropical country to have stopped and reversed deforestation; it has successfully restored its forestry and developed an ecosystem service to teach biologists and ecologists about its environmental protection measures. Who acts: Costa, climate. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Costa
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# Costa Rica, sentence 97

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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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Costa Rica is the first tropical country to have stopped and reversed deforestation; it has successfully restored its forestry and developed an ecosystem service to teach biologists and ecologists about its environmental protection measures.

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**Who acts:** Costa, climate · **What happens:** be, stop, reverse, restore, develop, teach · **To what, where:** first tropical country, deforestation, climate, ecosystem service, biologists

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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 (Costa, climate), 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:97
# text = Costa Rica is the first tropical country to have stopped and reversed deforestation; it has successfully restored its forestry and developed an ecosystem service to teach biologists and ecologists about its environmental protection measures.
1	Costa	Costa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	Rica	Rica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
6	tropical	tropical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	reversed	reverse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
13	deforestation	deforestation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	successfully	successfully	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	forestry	forestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	developed	develop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	ecosystem	ecosystem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
28	biologists	biologist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	ecologists	ecologist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	about	about	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
33	environmental	environmental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	measures	measure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Costa | the first tropical country |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **reverse** | participle |  | deforestation |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent deforestation=Patient |
| 4 | **restore** | present · perfect · passive |  | climate |  |  |  | climate's forestry *obj*; successfully *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **develop** | past |  | a ecosystem service |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Product |
| 6 | **teach** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  | biologists and ecologists |  |  |  | about climate's protection measures | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent biologist=Recipient about measure=Topic |
| 7 | **forest** |  | climate |  |  |  |  |  | nom forestry «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **measure** |  | climate |  |  |  |  |  | nom measure «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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