--- title: People must ask the council for planning permission before building… — Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness · tree and pragmatics description: People must ask the council for planning permission before building something big, and neighbours can object. Who acts: People, neighbours. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma --- [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/12/) [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…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/) / 12 # Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness, sentence 12 People must ask the council for planning permission before building something big, and neighbours can object. **Who acts:** People, neighbours · **What happens:** ask, build, object · **To what, where:** council, something 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 (People, neighbours), 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:12 # text = People must ask the council for planning permission before building something big, and neighbours can object. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 planning planning NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 permission permission NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 9 before before SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 building build VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 11 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 obj _ _ 12 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 neighbours neighbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 object object VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | must | People | the council | | | | for planning permission | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent council=Recipient | | 2 | **build** | gerund | People *not said here* | something | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset something=Product | | 3 | **object** *speech: other* | can | neighbours | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: 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](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:12`. **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): R5-strong ×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. 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