Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools, sentence 8

A local council runs things like bin collections, street lights, parks and libraries; it is paid partly by council tax, which each home pays, and partly by the national government.

Who acts: local council, council tax, home · What happens: run, pay · To what, where: things, council, council tax

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 tax, home), 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	3 council	det
2	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 council	amod
3	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 runs	nsubj
4	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 runs	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 collections	case
7	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 collections	compound
8	collections	collection	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 things	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lights	punct
10	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lights	compound
11	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 collections	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 parks	punct
13	parks	park	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 collections	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 libraries	cc
15	libraries	library	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 collections	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 paid	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 paid	nsubj:pass
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 paid	aux:pass
19	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 runs	parataxis
20	partly	partly	ADV	_	19 paid	advmod
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 tax	case
22	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tax	compound
23	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 paid	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pays	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 pays	obj
26	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 home	det
27	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pays	nsubj
28	pays	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 tax	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 partly	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 partly	cc
31	partly	partly	ADV	_	19 paid	conj
32	by	by	ADP	_	35 government	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 government	det
34	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 government	amod
35	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 partly	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 runs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run	present	a local council	things	like bin collections and street lights and parks and libraries	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Trajectory
2	pay	present · passive	council tax	council	partly property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset
3	pay	present	each home	council tax		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Asset

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:8.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/8-taxes-and-local-councils-bins-roads-and-schools/8/