Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness, sentence 12
People must ask the council for planning permission before building something big, and neighbours can object.
Who acts: People, neighbours · What happens: ask, build, object · To what, where: council, something
This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» of the adult life 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, neighbours), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | aux |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 council | det |
| 5 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ask | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 permission | case |
| 7 | planning | planning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 permission | compound |
| 8 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ask | obl |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 building | mark |
| 10 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ask | advcl |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 building | obj |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 something | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 object | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 object | cc |
| 15 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 object | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 object | aux |
| 17 | object | object | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | must | People | the council | for planning permission | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent council=Recipient | |||
| 2 | build | gerund | People not said here | something | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset something=Product | ||||
| 3 | object speech: other | can | neighbours | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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, 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:adult-life:033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.lesson:12.
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, R7-rel-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.
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