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title: Migration means people moving to live in another place, inside their… — Population and cities · tree and pragmatics
description: Migration means people moving to live in another place, inside their country or abroad. Who acts: Migration, people. A sentence of the lesson «Population and cities» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Population and cities, sentence 21

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Migration means people moving to live in another place, inside their country or abroad.

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**Who acts:** Migration, people · **What happens:** mean, move, live · **To what, where:** people, place

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Population and cities» of the geography 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 (Migration, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:024-population-and-cities.lesson:21
# text = Migration means people moving to live in another place, inside their country or abroad.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 024-population-and-cities.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): no change
1	Migration	migration	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	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	13	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Migration | people |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic |
| 2 | **move** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  | another place |  | inside people's country | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:geography:024-population-and-cities.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): no change. **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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