Immigration and borders, sentence 3
A country is a bit like a school with a front gate: it decides who may come in and how.
Who acts: country · What happens: be, decide, come in · To what, where: bit · 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 (country), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 country | det |
| 2 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bit | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 school | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 school | det |
| 8 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 gate | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 gate | det |
| 11 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gate | amod |
| 12 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 school | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 decides | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 decides | nsubj |
| 15 | decides | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bit | parataxis |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 come | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 decides | ccomp |
| 19 | in | in | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 how | cc |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 come | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 decides | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a country | a bit | like a school with a front gate | tree rules | |||
| 2 | decide | present | country | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in | may | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:3.
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. 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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