--- title: The council has a budget, a fixed amount of money, so it must choose… — School councils and class reps · tree and pragmatics description: The council has a budget, a fixed amount of money, so it must choose; a good rep listens to the teachers' reasons too and carries messages both ways. Who acts: council, good rep. 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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 (council, good rep), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:037-school-councils-and-class-reps.lesson:3 # text = The council has a budget, a fixed amount of money, so it must choose; a good rep listens to the teachers' reasons too and carries messages both ways. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 037-school-councils-and-class-reps.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 budget budget NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 rep rep NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 listens listen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 teachers teacher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 ' 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 27 too too ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 30 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 32 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 . . 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 | **have** | present | the council | a budget | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent budget=Patient | | 2 | **fix** | participle | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **choose** | must | council | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **listen** | present | a good rep | | | | | to the teachers's reasons | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to reason=Theme | | 5 | **carry** | present | a good rep *not said here* | messages | | | | both ways *obl:unmarked* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | | 6 | **amount** | | | money | | | | | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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:037-school-councils-and-class-reps.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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [School councils and class reps, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/2/) - next →: [School councils and class reps, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/)