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title: Pork, chicken, and beef are the preferred types of meat, but lamb an… — Romania · tree and pragmatics
description: Pork, chicken, and beef are the preferred types of meat, but lamb and fish are also quite popular. Who acts: Pork, lamb. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Romania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Romania, sentence 405

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From Wikipedia, [«Romania»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania), 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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Pork, chicken, and beef are the preferred types of meat, but lamb and fish are also quite popular.

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**Who acts:** Pork, lamb · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** preferred types

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Romania». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pork, lamb), 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:Romania:405
# text = Pork, chicken, and beef are the preferred types of meat, but lamb and fish are also quite popular.
1	Pork	pork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	beef	beef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	preferred	preferred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	types	type	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Pork and chicken and beef | the preferred types |  |  |  | of meat | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | lamb and fish |  |  |  |  | popular *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, «Romania», 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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