Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools, sentence 12
Each US state has a governor; each Canadian province and each Australian state has a premier; they run things like schools and hospitals, while the national government runs things like the army.
Who acts: US state, Canadian province, province, national government · What happens: have, run · To what, where: governor, premier, 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 (US state, Canadian province, province, 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 state | det |
| 2 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 state | compound |
| 3 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 governor | det |
| 6 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 has | punct |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 province | det |
| 9 | Canadian | Canadian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 province | amod |
| 10 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 state | cc |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 state | det |
| 13 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 state | amod |
| 14 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 province | conj |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 premier | det |
| 17 | premier | premier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 run | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 run | nsubj |
| 20 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | conj |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 run | obj |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 schools | case |
| 23 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 things | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hospitals | cc |
| 25 | hospitals | hospital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 schools | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 runs | punct |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 runs | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 government | det |
| 29 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 government | amod |
| 30 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 runs | nsubj |
| 31 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 run | advcl |
| 32 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 runs | obj |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 35 army | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 army | det |
| 35 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 things | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | each US state | a governor | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent governor=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | each Canadian province and each Australian state | a premier | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent premier=Patient | ||||
| 3 | run | present | province | things | like schools and hospitals | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | run | present | the national government | things | like the army | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Trajectory |
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: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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