What politics is: deciding things together, sentence 7

A town or city council has a limited budget, so spending money on one thing, like a library, means less for something else, like a swimming pool.

Who acts: town, spending · What happens: have, spend, mean · To what, where: limited budget, money, one thing, less · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «What politics is: deciding things together» 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 (town, spending), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 town	det
2	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 council	cc
4	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 council	compound
5	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 town	conj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 budget	det
8	limited	limited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 budget	amod
9	budget	budget	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 means	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	22 means	advmod
12	spending	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 means	csubj
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spending	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 thing	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 thing	nummod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spending	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 library	punct
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 library	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 library	det
20	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thing	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 means	punct
22	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 has	parataxis
23	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 means	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 something	case
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 less	obl
26	else	else	ADV	_	25 something	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pool	punct
28	like	like	ADP	_	31 pool	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pool	det
30	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pool	compound
31	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 something	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	a town or city council	a limited budget		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent budget=Patient
2	spend	gerund		money	on one thing like a library goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent money=Asset on thing=Goal
3	mean	present	spending	less		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=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, 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:001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

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