--- title: Your local council is the government closest to your door: it emptie… — Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools · tree and pragmatics description: Your local council is the government closest to your door: it empties the bins before the foxes have a party, fills potholes, lights the streets and runs parks and libraries, paid partly by council tax from every home. Who acts: local council, council, foxes. 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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 (local council, council, foxes), 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:2 # text = Your local council is the government closest to your door: it empties the bins before the foxes have a party, fills potholes, lights the streets and runs parks and libraries, paid partly by council tax from every home. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 closest close ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 empties empty VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 bins bin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 before before SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 24 potholes pothole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 lights light VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 31 parks park NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 libraries library NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 36 partly partly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 39 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 42 det _ _ 42 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 43 . . 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 | **is a** | present | Your local council | the government | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **empty** | present | council | the bins | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bin=Source | | 3 | **have** | present | the foxes | a party | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient | | 4 | **fill** | present | council *not said here* | potholes | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pothole=Patient | | 5 | **light** | present | council *not said here* | the streets | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Product | | 6 | **run** | present | council *not said here* | parks and libraries | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme park=Trajectory | | 7 | **pay** | participle | | Your local council *not said here* | | every home | | by council tax; partly *property* | vn pay-68-1 «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:2`. **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, R8-pos-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. 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