Immigration and borders, sentence 21
Some say strict rules and strong borders keep a country safe and fair to those who come legally; others say countries should offer more safe, legal routes and treat everyone with dignity.
Who acts: Some, strict rules, others, countries · What happens: say, keep, come, offer, treat · To what, where: country, more safe legal routes, everyone · 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 (Some, strict rules, others, countries), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rules | amod |
| 4 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 keep | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 borders | cc |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 borders | amod |
| 7 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rules | conj |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 country | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keep | obj |
| 11 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 keep | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fair | cc |
| 13 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 safe | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 those | case |
| 15 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 fair | obl |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 come | nsubj |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 those | acl:relcl |
| 18 | legally | legally | ADV | _ | 17 come | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 say | punct |
| 20 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 say | nsubj |
| 21 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | conj |
| 22 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 offer | nsubj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 offer | aux |
| 24 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 say | ccomp |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 routes | amod |
| 26 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 routes | amod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 routes | punct |
| 28 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 routes | amod |
| 29 | routes | route | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 offer | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 treat | cc |
| 31 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 offer | conj |
| 32 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 31 treat | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 dignity | case |
| 34 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 treat | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Some | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | keep | present | strict rules and strong borders | a country | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme | |||
| 3 | come | present | legally property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | offer | should | countries | more safe legal routes | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent route=Theme | ||||
| 6 | treat | infinitive | countries not said here | everyone | with dignity | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient with dignity=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:21.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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