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title: Local councils look after things like parks, bins, libraries and sma… — Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decid… · tree and pragmatics
description: Local councils look after things like parks, bins, libraries and small roads; the national government decides big national things like the army. Who acts: Local councils, national government. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★» of the politics course of 
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# Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★, sentence 12

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Local councils look after things like parks, bins, libraries and small roads; the national government decides big national things like the army.

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**Who acts:** Local councils, national government · **What happens:** look, decide · **To what, where:** big national things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★» 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 (Local councils, national government), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:041-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides.lesson:12
# text = Local councils look after things like parks, bins, libraries and small roads; the national government decides big national things like the army.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 041-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides.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	Local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	councils	council	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	parks	park	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	libraries	library	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	decides	decide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
20	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
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 | **look** | present | Local councils |  |  |  | after things like parks and bins and libraries and small roads |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **decide** | present | the national government | big national things |  |  |  | like the army | 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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**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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