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title: People argue hard about it: how many should come, who, by which rout… — Immigration and borders · tree and pragmatics
description: People argue hard about it: how many should come, who, by which routes, and what should happen to people who came without permission. Who acts: People, many. A sentence of the lesson «Immigration and borders» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Immigration and borders, sentence 4

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People argue hard about it: how many should come, who, by which routes, and what should happen to people who came without permission.

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**Who acts:** People, many · **What happens:** argue, come, happen · **To what, where:** routes

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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 (People, many), 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:4
# text = People argue hard about it: how many should come, who, by which routes, and what should happen to people who came without permission.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	dep	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	16	det	_	_
16	routes	route	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	without	without	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | People |  |  |  |  | about country; hard *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | should | many | which routes |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **happen** | should | many *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to people | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | past | people |  |  |  |  | without permission | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:4`.

**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): 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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