Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax, sentence 3

Council tax goes to the local council for shared things like bins, streetlights and libraries, so the bin men are paid even though nobody hands them money at the door.

Who acts: Council tax, nobody · What happens: go, share, pay, hand · To what, where: local council, bin men, money, men, door

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax» of the money 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 (Council tax, nobody), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tax	compound
2	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 council	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 council	det
6	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 council	amod
7	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 things	case
9	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 things	amod
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 goes	obl
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 bins	case
12	bins	bin	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 things	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 streetlights	punct
14	streetlights	streetlight	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bins	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 libraries	cc
16	libraries	library	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bins	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 paid	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	23 paid	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 men	det
20	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 men	compound
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 paid	nsubj:pass
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 paid	aux:pass
23	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 goes	parataxis
24	even	even	ADV	_	27 hands	advmod
25	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 hands	mark
26	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 hands	nsubj
27	hands	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 paid	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hands	iobj
29	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hands	obj
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 door	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 door	det
32	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hands	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	Council tax			the local council	for shared things like bins and streetlights and libraries	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to council=Initial_Location
2	share	participle						tree rules
3	pay	present · passive		the bin men				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
4	hand	present	nobody	money	men = man	the door		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination money=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:money:021-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax.lesson:3.

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.

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