--- title: Big claims like "all of them" or "millions flooding in" are worth ch… — Immigration and borders · tree and pragmatics description: Big claims like "all of them" or "millions flooding in" are worth checking against official numbers; the numbers can be big without matching what a scary video says. Who acts: millions, Big claims, numbers, scary video. A sentence of the lesson «Immigration and borders» of the politics course of Mov --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Immigration and borders, sentence 7 Big claims like "all of them" or "millions flooding in" are worth checking against official numbers; the numbers can be big without matching what a scary video says. **Who acts:** millions, Big claims, numbers, scary video · **What happens:** flood, be, check, match, say · **To what, where:** official numbers · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (millions, Big claims, numbers, scary video), 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:7 # text = Big claims like "all of them" or "millions flooding in" are worth checking against official numbers; the numbers can be big without matching what a scary video says. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 claims claim NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nmod _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 12 flooding flood VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 13 in in ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 17 checking check VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:ccomp 18 against against ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 26 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 27 without without SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 matching match VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 29 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 33 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:obj|HaikuPos=DET:WDT:PronType=Int 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flood** *in a quote* | gerund | millions *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | Big claims like all | | | | | worth *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **check** | gerund | Big claims like all *not said here* | | | official numbers | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against number=Location | | 4 | **is** | can | the numbers | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **match** | gerund | the numbers *not said here* | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a scary video | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | 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:7`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Immigration and borders, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/19-immigration-and-borders/6/) - next →: [Immigration and borders, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/19-immigration-and-borders/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/19-immigration-and-borders/)