--- title: A local council runs things like bin collections, street lights, par… — Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools · tree and pragmatics description: A local council runs things like bin collections, street lights, parks and libraries; it is paid partly by council tax, which each home pays, and partly by the national government. Who acts: local council, council tax, home. 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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 tax, home), 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:8 # text = A local council runs things like bin collections, street lights, parks and libraries; it is paid partly by council tax, which each home pays, and partly by the national government. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 collections collection NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 parks park NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 libraries library NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 20 partly partly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 obj _ _ 26 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 pays pay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 partly partly ADV RB _ 19 conj _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | present | a local council | things | | | | like bin collections and street lights and parks and libraries | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Trajectory | | 2 | **pay** | present · passive | council tax | council | | | | partly *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset | | 3 | **pay** | present | each home | council tax | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Asset | 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:8`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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. 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