--- title: A town or city council has a limited budget, so spending money on on… — What politics is: deciding things together · tree and pragmatics description: A town or city council has a limited budget, so spending money on one thing, like a library, means less for something else, like a swimming pool. Who acts: town, spending. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town, spending), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.lesson:7 # text = A town or city council has a limited budget, so spending money on one thing, like a library, means less for something else, like a swimming pool. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 limited limited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 budget budget NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 11 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 12 spending spend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 csubj _ _ 13 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 library library NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 23 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 obj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obl 25 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl 26 else else ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 like like ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 swimming swimming NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a town or city council | a limited budget | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent budget=Patient | | 2 | **spend** | gerund | | money | | | | on one thing like a library *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent money=Asset on thing=Goal | | 3 | **mean** | present | spending | less | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Topic | 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:politics:001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.lesson:7`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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