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title: Even the words are part of the argument, so listen to which words ea… — Immigration and borders · tree and pragmatics
description: Even the words are part of the argument, so listen to which words each side chooses. Who acts: words, side. A sentence of the lesson «Immigration and borders» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Immigration and borders, sentence 6

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Even the words are part of the argument, so listen to which words each side chooses.

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**Who acts:** words, side · **What happens:** be, listen, choose · **To what, where:** part, words

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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 (words, side), 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:6
# text = Even the words are part of the argument, so listen to which words each side chooses.
# 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
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	14	det	_	_
14	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	chooses	choose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the words | part |  |  |  | of the argument | tree rules |
| 2 | **listen** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to which words | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme |
| 3 | **choose** | present | each side | which words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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:6`.

**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. **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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