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title: Immigration means people moving to live in another country; countrie… — Votes, parties and the people in charge · tree and pragmatics
description: Immigration means people moving to live in another country; countries have rules about it, and people disagree about those rules. Who acts: Immigration, people, countries. A sentence of the lesson «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Votes, parties and the people in charge, sentence 18

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Immigration means people moving to live in another country; countries have rules about it, and people disagree about those rules.

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**Who acts:** Immigration, people, countries · **What happens:** mean, move, live, have, disagree · **To what, where:** people, country, rules

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life 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 (Immigration, people, countries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.lesson:18
# text = Immigration means people moving to live in another country; countries have rules about it, and people disagree about those rules.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.lesson
# annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Immigration	Immigration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
13	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	disagree	disagree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Immigration | people |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic |
| 2 | **move** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  | another country |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
| 4 | **have** | present | countries | rules |  |  |  | about Immigration | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient |
| 5 | **disagree** | present | people |  |  |  |  | about that rules | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about rule=Topic |

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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.

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**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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