Immigration and borders, sentence 16

An asylum seeker has asked for protection and is waiting for an answer; it was reported that the UK had a big backlog of claims, a pile of cases waiting to be dealt with, many people were housed in hotels paid by the government, and most are not allowed to work while waiting.

Who acts: asylum seeker, UK, cases, most · What happens: ask, wait, report, have, deal, house · To what, where: seeker, big backlog, many people, hotels, most

This is a sentence of the lesson «Immigration and borders» of the politics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (asylum seeker, UK, cases, most), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 seeker	det
2	asylum	asylum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seeker	compound
3	seeker	seeker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asked	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 asked	aux
5	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 protection	case
7	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 waiting	cc
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 waiting	aux
10	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 asked	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 answer	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 answer	det
13	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waiting	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 reported	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reported	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 reported	aux:pass
17	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 asked	parataxis
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 UK	det
20	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 reported	ccomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 backlog	det
23	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 backlog	amod
24	backlog	backlog	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 claims	case
26	claims	claim	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 backlog	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pile	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 pile	det
29	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 claims	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 cases	case
31	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pile	nmod
32	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 cases	acl
33	to	to	PART	_	35 dealt	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 dealt	aux:pass
35	dealt	deal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 waiting	xcomp
36	with	with	ADP	_	35 dealt	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 housed	punct
38	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 people	amod
39	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 housed	nsubj
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 housed	aux:pass
41	housed	house	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 had	conj
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 hotels	case
43	hotels	hotel	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 housed	obl
44	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 hotels	acl
45	by	by	ADP	_	47 government	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 government	det
47	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 paid	obl:agent
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 allowed	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 allowed	cc
50	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	53 allowed	nsubj:pass
51	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 allowed	aux:pass
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 allowed	advmod
53	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 had	conj
54	to	to	PART	_	55 work	mark
55	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 allowed	xcomp
56	while	while	SCONJ	_	57 waiting	mark
57	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	55 work	advcl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 asked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present · perfect	a asylum seeker			for protection	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wait	present · progressive	a asylum seeker not said here			for a answer	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	report	past · passive		seeker			vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
4	have	past	the UK	a big backlog of claims and a pile of cases			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backlog=Patient
5	wait	gerund	cases not said here				tree rules
6	deal	to-infinitive · passive	cases not said here				vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»
7	house	past · passive		many people	hotels		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in hotel=Location
8	pay	participle		hotels not said here			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	not allow	present · passive		most			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
10	work not said to happen	to-infinitive	most not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	wait	gerund	most not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:politics:019-immigration-and-borders.lesson:16.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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