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title: It fixes roads, empties bins, runs parks and libraries, and decides… — Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness · tree and pragmatics
description: It fixes roads, empties bins, runs parks and libraries, and decides on planning: whether people may build big extensions. Who acts: council, people. 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 t
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# Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness, sentence 3

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It fixes roads, empties bins, runs parks and libraries, and decides on planning: whether people may build big extensions.

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**Who acts:** council, people · **What happens:** fix, empty, run, decide, build · **To what, where:** roads, bins, parks, big extensions

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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, people), 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:3
# text = It fixes roads, empties bins, runs parks and libraries, and decides on planning: whether people may build big extensions.
# 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): no change
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fixes	fix	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	empties	empty	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	parks	park	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	libraries	library	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	decides	decide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	planning	planning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
22	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	extensions	extension	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **fix** | present | council | roads |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent road=Patient |
| 2 | **empty** | present | council *not said here* | bins |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bin=Source |
| 3 | **run** | present | council *not said here* | parks and libraries |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme park=Trajectory |
| 4 | **decide** | present | council *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on planning | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on planning=Topic |
| 5 | **build** | may | people | big extensions |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent extension=Product |

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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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**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): no change. **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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