Paying for a home and the bills, sentence 12
Council tax is paid by each household to the local council and pays for bins, street lights, libraries, parks and care for older people.
Who acts: household · What happens: pay · To what, where: Council tax
This is a sentence of the lesson «Paying for a home and the bills» 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 (household), 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 | Council | Council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tax | compound |
| 2 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 paid | aux:pass |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 household | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 household | det |
| 7 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 council | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 council | det |
| 10 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 council | amod |
| 11 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pays | cc |
| 13 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 paid | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 bins | case |
| 15 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pays | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lights | punct |
| 17 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lights | compound |
| 18 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bins | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 libraries | punct |
| 20 | libraries | library | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bins | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 parks | punct |
| 22 | parks | park | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bins | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 care | cc |
| 24 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bins | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 people | case |
| 26 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 people | amod |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 paid | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present · passive | each household | Council tax | to the local council; for older people | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Asset for people=Theme | |||
| 2 | pay | present | each household not said here | for bins and street lights and libraries and parks and care | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bin=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, 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:006-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills.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): no change. 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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