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title: National governments decide big national things like the army; local… — Putting it together: explain each side, check th… · tree and pragmatics
description: National governments decide big national things like the army; local councils or school boards usually decide local things like schools, bins and parks. Who acts: National governments, local councils. A sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim» of the politics 
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# Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim, sentence 5

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National governments decide big national things like the army; local councils or school boards usually decide local things like schools, bins and parks.

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**Who acts:** National governments, local councils · **What happens:** decide · **To what, where:** big national things, local things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim» of the politics 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 (National governments, local councils), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:040-putting-it-together.lesson:5
# text = National governments decide big national things like the army; local councils or school boards usually decide local things like schools, bins and parks.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 040-putting-it-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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	National	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	governments	government	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	decide	decide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	councils	council	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	boards	board	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	decide	decide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
18	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	parks	park	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **decide** | present | National governments | big national things |  |  |  | like the army | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 2 | **decide** | present | local councils or school boards | local things |  |  |  | like schools and bins and parks; usually *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |

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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:politics:040-putting-it-together.lesson:5`.

**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/).

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