--- title: Some say strict rules and strong borders keep a country safe and fai… — Immigration and borders · tree and pragmatics description: Some say strict rules and strong borders keep a country safe and fair to those who come legally; others say countries should offer more safe, legal routes and treat everyone with dignity. Who acts: Some, strict rules, others, countries. 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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 (Some, strict rules, others, countries), 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:21 # text = Some say strict rules and strong borders keep a country safe and fair to those who come legally; others say countries should offer more safe, legal routes and treat everyone with dignity. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 strict strict ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 borders border NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 8 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 13 obl _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 legally legally ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 25 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 26 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 legal legal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 routes route NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 treat treat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 32 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 31 obj _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 dignity dignity NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Some | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **keep** | present | strict rules and strong borders | a country | | | | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme | | 3 | **come** | present | | | | | | legally *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **offer** | should | countries | more safe legal routes | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent route=Theme | | 6 | **treat** | infinitive | countries *not said here* | | everyone | | | with dignity | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient with dignity=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: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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/19-immigration-and-borders/20/) - next →: [Healthcare: who pays when you are ill, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/19-immigration-and-borders/)