Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools, sentence 13

Council meetings are usually open to the public, and people can sometimes speak or ask questions; councillors are elected to the council and vote on things like parks and roads.

Who acts: Council meetings, people · What happens: be, speak, ask, elect, vote · To what, where: questions, councillors, things · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Council meetings, people), 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	Council	Council	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 meetings	compound
2	meetings	meeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 open	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 open	cop
4	usually	usually	ADV	_	5 open	advmod
5	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 public	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 public	det
8	public	public	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 open	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 speak	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 speak	cc
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 speak	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 speak	aux
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 speak	advmod
14	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 open	conj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 ask	cc
16	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 speak	conj
17	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ask	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 elected	punct
19	councillors	councillor	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 elected	nsubj:pass
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 elected	aux:pass
21	elected	elect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 open	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 council	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 council	det
24	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 elected	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 vote	cc
26	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 elected	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 things	case
28	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 vote	obl
29	like	like	ADP	_	30 parks	case
30	parks	park	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 things	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 roads	cc
32	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 parks	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 open	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Council meetings			to the public; open, usually property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	can	people			sometimes property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive	people not said here	questions			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
4	elect	present · passive		councillors		to the council	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme to council=Attribute
5	vote	infinitive			things like parks and roads		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:13.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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