Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim, sentence 5
National governments decide big national things like the army; local councils or school boards usually decide local things like schools, bins and parks.
Who acts: National governments, local councils · What happens: decide · To what, where: big national things, local things
This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim» 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 (National governments, local councils), 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 | National | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 governments | amod |
| 2 | governments | government | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 decide | nsubj |
| 3 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 things | amod |
| 5 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 things | amod |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 decide | obj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 army | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 army | det |
| 9 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 things | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 councils | punct |
| 11 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 councils | amod |
| 12 | councils | council | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 decide | nsubj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 boards | cc |
| 14 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 boards | compound |
| 15 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 councils | conj |
| 16 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 17 decide | advmod |
| 17 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 decide | parataxis |
| 18 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 things | amod |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 decide | obj |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 schools | case |
| 21 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 things | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bins | punct |
| 23 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 schools | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 parks | cc |
| 25 | parks | park | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 schools | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decide | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | present | National governments | big national things | like the army | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | |||
| 2 | decide | present | local councils or school boards | local things | like schools and bins and parks; usually property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent thing=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:040-putting-it-together.lesson:5.
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): 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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