--- title: An asylum seeker has asked for protection and is waiting for an answ… — Immigration and borders · tree and pragmatics description: An asylum seeker has asked for protection and is waiting for an answer; it was reported that the UK had a big backlog of claims, a pile of cases waiting to be dealt with, many people were housed in hotels paid by the government, and most are not allowed to work while waiting. Who acts: asylum seeker --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/19-immigration-and-borders/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / [Immigration and borders](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/19-immigration-and-borders/) / 16 # Immigration and borders, sentence 16 An asylum seeker has asked for protection and is waiting for an answer; it was reported that the UK had a big backlog of claims, a pile of cases waiting to be dealt with, many people were housed in hotels paid by the government, and most are not allowed to work while waiting. **Who acts:** asylum seeker, UK, cases, most · **What happens:** ask, wait, report, have, deal, house · **To what, where:** seeker, big backlog, many people, hotels, most 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 (asylum seeker, UK, cases, most), 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:16 # text = An asylum seeker has asked for protection and is waiting for an answer; it was reported that the UK had a big backlog of claims, a pile of cases waiting to be dealt with, many people were housed in hotels paid by the government, and most are not allowed to work while waiting. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 asylum asylum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 seeker seeker NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 protection protection NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 backlog backlog NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 claims claim NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 pile pile NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 32 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 acl _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 dealt deal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 xcomp _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 35 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 40 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 housed house VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 hotels hotel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 44 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 acl _ _ 45 by by ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl:agent _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 50 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 53 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=53:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=PRON:JJS:PronType=Ind 51 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 aux:pass _ _ 52 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 53 advmod _ _ 53 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 54 to to PART TO _ 55 mark _ _ 55 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 53 xcomp _ _ 56 while while SCONJ IN _ 57 mark _ _ 57 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 55 advcl _ _ 58 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · perfect | a asylum seeker | | | | | for protection | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **wait** | present · progressive | a asylum seeker *not said here* | | | | | for a answer | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **report** | past · passive | | seeker | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **have** | past | the UK | a big backlog of claims and a pile of cases | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backlog=Patient | | 5 | **wait** | gerund | cases *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **deal** | to-infinitive · passive | cases *not said here* | | | | | | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme» | | 7 | **house** | past · passive | | many people | | hotels | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in hotel=Location | | 8 | **pay** | participle | | hotels *not said here* | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **not** **allow** | present · passive | | most | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 10 | **work** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | most *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **wait** | gerund | most *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «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](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:16`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Immigration and borders, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/19-immigration-and-borders/15/) - next →: [Immigration and borders, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/19-immigration-and-borders/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/19-immigration-and-borders/)