Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools, sentence 3
Money is always limited, so councils must choose: fix this road or that one, keep the library open on Saturdays or pay for care for old people; when money is short, people notice bins, potholes and closed libraries first.
Who acts: Money, councils, people · What happens: be, choose, fix, keep, pay, notice · To what, where: road, library, bins
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 (Money, councils, 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 | Money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 limited | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 limited | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 limited | advmod |
| 4 | limited | limited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 choose | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 choose | advmod |
| 7 | councils | council | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 choose | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 choose | aux |
| 9 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 limited | parataxis |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 fix | punct |
| 11 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 choose | xcomp |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 road | det |
| 13 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fix | obj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 one | cc |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 road | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 keep | punct |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fix | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 library | det |
| 20 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 keep | obj |
| 21 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 keep | xcomp |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 Saturdays | case |
| 23 | Saturdays | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 keep | obl |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 pay | cc |
| 25 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fix | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 care | case |
| 27 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pay | obl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 people | case |
| 29 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 people | amod |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 pay | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 short | punct |
| 32 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 35 short | mark |
| 33 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 short | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 short | cop |
| 35 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 notice | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 bins | punct |
| 37 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 notice | nsubj |
| 38 | notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 limited | parataxis |
| 39 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 notice | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 potholes | punct |
| 41 | potholes | pothole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 bins | conj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 libraries | cc |
| 43 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 libraries | amod |
| 44 | libraries | library | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 bins | conj |
| 45 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 38 notice | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 limited | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Money | always, limited property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | choose | must | councils | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fix | infinitive | councils not said here | this road | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent road=Patient | ||||
| 4 | keep | infinitive | councils not said here | the library | saturday | open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent library=Theme | ||
| 5 | pay | infinitive | councils not said here | for care; for old people | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for care=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | present | money | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | notice | present | people | bins and potholes and closed libraries | first property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bin=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | close | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:3.
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): R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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