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title: Council tax goes to the local council for shared things like bins, s… — Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, cou… · tree and pragmatics
description: Council tax goes to the local council for shared things like bins, streetlights and libraries, so the bin men are paid even though nobody hands them money at the door. Who acts: Council tax, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax» of the money cour
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# Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax, sentence 3

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Council tax goes to the local council for shared things like bins, streetlights and libraries, so the bin men are paid even though nobody hands them money at the door.

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**Who acts:** Council tax, nobody · **What happens:** go, share, pay, hand · **To what, where:** local council, bin men, money, men, door

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax» of the money 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 tax, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:021-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax.lesson:3
# text = Council tax goes to the local council for shared things like bins, streetlights and libraries, so the bin men are paid even though nobody hands them money at the door.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 021-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax.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
1	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	streetlights	streetlight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	libraries	library	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	27	nsubj	_	_
27	hands	hand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	_
29	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Council tax |  |  | the local council |  | for shared things like bins and streetlights and libraries | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to council=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **share** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pay** | present · passive |  | the bin men |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 4 | **hand** | present | nobody | money | men *= man* | the door |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination money=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:money:021-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax.lesson:3`.

**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. **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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