Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools, sentence 2
Your local council is the government closest to your door: it empties the bins before the foxes have a party, fills potholes, lights the streets and runs parks and libraries, paid partly by council tax from every home.
Who acts: local council, council, foxes · What happens: be, empty, have, fill, light, run · To what, where: government, bins, party, potholes, streets, parks
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 (local council, council, foxes), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 council | nmod:poss |
| 2 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 council | amod |
| 3 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 government | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 government | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 government | det |
| 6 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | closest | close | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 government | amod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 door | nmod:poss |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 closest | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 empties | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 empties | nsubj |
| 13 | empties | empty | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 government | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bins | det |
| 15 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 empties | obj |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 19 have | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 foxes | det |
| 18 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 empties | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 party | det |
| 21 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fills | punct |
| 23 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 empties | conj |
| 24 | potholes | pothole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fills | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lights | punct |
| 26 | lights | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 empties | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 streets | det |
| 28 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 lights | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 runs | cc |
| 30 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 empties | conj |
| 31 | parks | park | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 runs | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 libraries | cc |
| 33 | libraries | library | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 parks | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 paid | punct |
| 35 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 council | acl |
| 36 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 35 paid | advmod |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 tax | case |
| 38 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 tax | compound |
| 39 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 paid | obl |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 home | case |
| 41 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 home | det |
| 42 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 paid | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 government | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Your local council | the government | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | empty | present | council | the bins | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bin=Source | ||||
| 3 | have | present | the foxes | a party | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fill | present | council not said here | potholes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pothole=Patient | ||||
| 5 | light | present | council not said here | the streets | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Product | ||||
| 6 | run | present | council not said here | parks and libraries | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme park=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | pay | participle | Your local council not said here | every home | by council tax; partly property | vn pay-68-1 «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:2.
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, R8-pos-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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