--- title: Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Living close to other people means sharing streets, walls, parking spaces and rules. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / Neighbours, the council, rules and fai… # Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness Lesson 33 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 22 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/0/) — Living close to other people means sharing streets, walls, parking spaces and rules. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/1/) — Most of the time it goes smoothly, but small things like a hedge or a parked car can grow into big rows. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/2/) — The council is the local government. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/3/) — It fixes roads, empties bins, runs parks and libraries, and decides on planning: whether people may build big extensions. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/4/) — Councillors are elected by local people. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/5/) — Scene: in Auckland, Dad stands over three bins holding a yoghurt pot: «Which one does this go in?» Then he finds a note on the car: «You've parked across my drive AGAIN!» He grumbles, then knocks next door and sorts it out in two minutes. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/6/) — A friendly word early stops a big row later. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/7/) — Rules and laws are shared agreements so everyone can live together safely. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/8/) — Fair does not always mean the same for everyone; sometimes it means each person gets what they need. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/9/) — Rights belong to everyone, and freedom stops where it starts to hurt others. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/10/) — Neighbours sometimes disagree about hedges, fences, noise or rubbish, and most disputes are solved by a friendly chat. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/11/) — The council is the local government that looks after roads, parks, bins, libraries and planning, run by elected councillors. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/12/) — People must ask the council for planning permission before building something big, and neighbours can object. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/13/) — Parking rows are common, and knocking politely usually works better than an angry note. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/14/) — Councils have recycling rules about which bin takes plastic, paper, glass or food, and the rules differ from place to place. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/15/) — If the wrong things go in a recycling bin, a whole load can be spoiled. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/16/) — Most people accept tax as the price of public services; they argue about how much and what it is spent on. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/17/) — Rules and laws are shared agreements; people follow them even when they dislike them, and change bad ones through proper ways. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/18/) — Sometimes fair means everyone gets the same, and sometimes it means people get what they need. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/19/) — Rights are things every person should have just for being human; children have special rights under a United Nations agreement. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/20/) — A free country gives people many freedoms, like speaking and voting, but freedom still has limits set by law. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/21/) — Your freedom stops where it starts to hurt other people. - ← previous: [Bad news, protests and helping others](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/) - next →: [When grown-ups are tired or worried](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)