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title: Money is always limited, so councils must choose: fix this road or t… — Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools · tree and pragmatics
description: Money is always limited, so councils must choose: fix this road or that one, keep the library open on Saturdays or pay for care for old people; when money is short, people notice bins, potholes and closed libraries first. Who acts: Money, councils, people. A sentence of the lesson «Taxes and local c
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# Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools, sentence 3

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Money is always limited, so councils must choose: fix this road or that one, keep the library open on Saturdays or pay for care for old people; when money is short, people notice bins, potholes and closed libraries first.

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**Who acts:** Money, councils, people · **What happens:** be, choose, fix, keep, pay, notice · **To what, where:** road, library, bins

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools» 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 (Money, councils, 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:3
# text = Money is always limited, so councils must choose: fix this road or that one, keep the library open on Saturdays or pay for care for old people; when money is short, people notice bins, potholes and closed libraries first.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	limited	limited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	councils	council	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Saturdays	Saturday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
32	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	35	mark	_	_
33	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	advcl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
38	notice	notice	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
39	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	potholes	pothole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=44:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
44	libraries	library	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	_
45	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	38	advmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | Money |  |  |  |  | always, limited *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **choose** | must | councils |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fix** | infinitive | councils *not said here* | this road |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent road=Patient |
| 4 | **keep** | infinitive | councils *not said here* | the library |  |  | saturday | open *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent library=Theme |
| 5 | **pay** | infinitive | councils *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for care; for old people | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for care=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | present | money |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **notice** | present | people | bins and potholes and closed libraries |  |  |  | first *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bin=Stimulus |
| 8 | **close** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:008-taxes-and-local-councils-bins-roads-and-schools.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): R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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