Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★, sentence 12
Local councils look after things like parks, bins, libraries and small roads; the national government decides big national things like the army.
Who acts: Local councils, national government · What happens: look, decide · To what, where: big national things
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★» 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 (Local councils, national government), 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 | Local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 councils | amod |
| 2 | councils | council | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 things | case |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | obl |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 parks | case |
| 7 | parks | park | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 things | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bins | punct |
| 9 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 parks | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 libraries | punct |
| 11 | libraries | library | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 parks | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 roads | cc |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 roads | amod |
| 14 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 parks | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 decides | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 government | det |
| 17 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 government | amod |
| 18 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 decides | nsubj |
| 19 | decides | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | parataxis |
| 20 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 things | amod |
| 21 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 things | amod |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 decides | obj |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 army | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 army | det |
| 25 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 things | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Local councils | after things like parks and bins and libraries and small roads | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | decide | present | the national government | big national things | like the army | 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:041-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides.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): 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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