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title: The council is the local government that looks after roads, parks, b… — Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness · tree and pragmatics
description: The council is the local government that looks after roads, parks, bins, libraries and planning, run by elected councillors. Who acts: council, local government. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness, sentence 11

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The council is the local government that looks after roads, parks, bins, libraries and planning, run by elected councillors.

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**Who acts:** council, local government · **What happens:** be, look, run, elect · **To what, where:** local government

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» of the adult life 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, local government), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.lesson:11
# text = The council is the local government that looks after roads, parks, bins, libraries and planning, run by elected councillors.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	parks	park	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	libraries	library	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	planning	planning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	councillors	councillor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:agent	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the council | the local government |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present | the local government |  |  |  | after roads and parks and bins and libraries and planning |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **run** | participle |  | the local government *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **elect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.lesson:11`.

**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. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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