Immigration and borders, sentence 17
It was reported that Australia has for many years turned back boats and sent people arriving by boat to centres in other countries, called offshore processing, while also resettling some refugees each year.
Who acts: Australia, people, centres · What happens: report, turn back, send, arrive, call, resettle · To what, where: most, boats, people, centres, offshore processing, refugees · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Australia, people, centres), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | aux:pass |
| 3 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 turned | mark |
| 5 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 turned | aux |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 years | amod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turned | obl |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | ccomp |
| 11 | back | back | ADP | _ | 10 turned | compound:prt |
| 12 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turned | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sent | cc |
| 14 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 turned | conj |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sent | obj |
| 16 | arriving | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 people | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 boat | case |
| 18 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 arriving | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 centres | case |
| 20 | centres | centre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 arriving | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 countries | case |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 countries | amod |
| 23 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 centres | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 called | punct |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 centres | acl |
| 26 | offshore | offshore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 processing | amod |
| 27 | processing | processing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 called | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 resettling | punct |
| 29 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 resettling | mark |
| 30 | also | also | ADV | _ | 31 resettling | advmod |
| 31 | resettling | resettle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 arriving | conj |
| 32 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 refugees | det |
| 33 | refugees | refugee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 resettling | obj |
| 34 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 year | det |
| 35 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 resettling | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past · passive | most | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | turn back | present | Australia | boats | year | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | |||
| 3 | send | participle | Australia not said here | people | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 4 | arrive | gerund | people not said here | centres in other countries | by boat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to centre=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | call | participle | centres in other countries not said here | offshore processing | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | resettle | gerund | people not said here | some refugees | year | tree rules |
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:17.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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