Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools, sentence 11

A mayor leads a town or city; some mayors are mostly for ceremonies, while elected mayors, like those of London or New York, have real power over things like buses and police.

Who acts: mayor, mayors, elected mayors · What happens: lead, be, elect, have · To what, where: town, real power, things

This is a sentence of the lesson «Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools» 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 (mayor, mayors, elected mayors), 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 mayor	det
2	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leads	nsubj
3	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 town	det
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leads	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 city	cc
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 town	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 ceremonies	punct
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 mayors	det
10	mayors	mayor	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ceremonies	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ceremonies	cop
12	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	14 ceremonies	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 ceremonies	case
14	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leads	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mayors	punct
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 mayors	case
17	elected	elect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 mayors	amod
18	mayors	mayor	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 have	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 those	case
21	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 have	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 London	case
23	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 those	nmod
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 New	cc
25	New	New	PROPN	_	23 London	conj
26	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 New	flat
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 those	punct
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ceremonies	advcl
29	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 power	amod
30	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
31	over	over	ADP	_	32 things	case
32	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 power	nmod
33	like	like	ADP	_	34 buses	case
34	buses	bus	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 things	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 police	cc
36	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 buses	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 leads	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	present	a mayor	a town or city			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme
2	is	present	some mayors			for ceremonies; mostly property	tree rules
3	elect	participle					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	have	present	elected mayors	real power	things like buses and police		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient

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:008-taxes-and-local-councils-bins-roads-and-schools.lesson:11.

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 ×2, 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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