--- title: News reports said that in 2025 the US government greatly increased d… — Immigration and borders · tree and pragmatics description: News reports said that in 2025 the US government greatly increased deportations, sending people found living there without permission back to their home countries; there were protests and court cases about how it was done. Who acts: News reports, US government, people, protests. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (News reports, US government, people, protests), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:019-immigration-and-borders.lesson:14 # text = News reports said that in 2025 the US government greatly increased deportations, sending people found living there without permission back to their home countries; there were protests and court cases about how it was done. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 019-immigration-and-borders.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 News news NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 reports report NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 2025 2025 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 greatly greatly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 increased increase VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 12 deportations deportation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 sending send VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 advcl _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 acl _ _ 17 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 xcomp _ _ 18 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 19 without without ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 permission permission NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 back back ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 28 expl _ _ 28 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 protests protest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 33 about about SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 34 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 37 advmod _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | News reports | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **increase** | past | the US government | deportations | | 2025 | | greatly *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer deportation=Patient | | 3 | **send** | gerund | the US government *not said here* | people | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 4 | **find** | participle | | people *not said here* | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **live** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | there | | without permission | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **be** | past | protests and court cases | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **do** | past · passive | | country | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | 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](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:politics:019-immigration-and-borders.lesson:14`. **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/). - ← previous: [Immigration and borders, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/19-immigration-and-borders/13/) - next →: [Immigration and borders, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/19-immigration-and-borders/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/19-immigration-and-borders/)