this cross-cultural soap opera is painfully formulaic and stilted . 
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(ROOT (S (NP (DT ) (JJ ) (NN ) (NN )) (VP (VBZ ) (ADJP (RB ) (JJ ) (CC ) (JJ ))) (. )))