--- title: Council meetings are usually open to the public, and people can some… — Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools · tree and pragmatics description: Council meetings are usually open to the public, and people can sometimes speak or ask questions; councillors are elected to the council and vote on things like parks and roads. Who acts: Council meetings, people. 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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 meetings, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:008-taxes-and-local-councils-bins-roads-and-schools.lesson:13 # text = Council meetings are usually open to the public, and people can sometimes speak or ask questions; councillors are elected to the council and vote on things like parks and roads. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 008-taxes-and-local-councils-bins-roads-and-schools.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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 Council Council PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 meetings meeting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 usually usually ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 public public NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 14 advmod _ _ 14 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 17 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 councillors councillor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 26 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 parks park NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Council meetings | | | | | to the public; open, usually *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | can | people | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | people *not said here* | questions | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 4 | **elect** | present · passive | | councillors | | | | to the council | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme to council=Attribute | | 5 | **vote** | infinitive | | | | things like parks and roads | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:008-taxes-and-local-councils-bins-roads-and-schools.lesson:13`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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. 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