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title: Council tax is paid by each household to the local council and pays… — Paying for a home and the bills · tree and pragmatics
description: Council tax is paid by each household to the local council and pays for bins, street lights, libraries, parks and care for older people. Who acts: household. A sentence of the lesson «Paying for a home and the bills» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Paying for a home and the bills, sentence 12

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Council tax is paid by each household to the local council and pays for bins, street lights, libraries, parks and care for older people.

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**Who acts:** household · **What happens:** pay · **To what, where:** Council tax

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Paying for a home and the bills» 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 (household), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:006-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills.lesson:12
# text = Council tax is paid by each household to the local council and pays for bins, street lights, libraries, parks and care for older people.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 006-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills.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	Council	Council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	libraries	library	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	parks	park	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **pay** | present · passive | each household | Council tax |  |  |  | to the local council; for older people | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Asset for people=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** | present | each household *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for bins and street lights and libraries and parks and care | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bin=Theme |

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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:006-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills.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): 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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