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title: Net migration is the number of people who arrived minus the number w… — Immigration and borders · tree and pragmatics
description: Net migration is the number of people who arrived minus the number who left; official statistics try to count it, and figures get updated. Who acts: Net migration, people, number, official statistics. A sentence of the lesson «Immigration and borders» of the politics course of Mova's primary school 
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# Immigration and borders, sentence 20

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Net migration is the number of people who arrived minus the number who left; official statistics try to count it, and figures get updated.

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**Who acts:** Net migration, people, number, official statistics · **What happens:** be, arrive, leave, try, count, get · **To what, where:** number, migration

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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 (Net migration, people, number, official statistics), 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:20
# text = Net migration is the number of people who arrived minus the number who left; official statistics try to count it, and figures get updated.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Net	net	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	migration	migration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	minus	minus	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	statistics	statistic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
24	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nsubj
25	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	updated	updated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | **is a** | present | Net migration | the number |  |  |  | of people | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | people |  |  |  |  | minus the number | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | past | the number |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **try** | present | official statistics |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **count** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | official statistics *not said here* | migration |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **get** | present | official statistics *not said here* |  |  |  |  | updated *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:politics:019-immigration-and-borders.lesson:20`.

**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, R6-punct-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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