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title: Why does a country collect taxes from people who earn money? — People and society — communities, work… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does a country collect taxes from people who earn money? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 58 «People and society — communities, work, money and rules» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 6 · ★ · People and society — communities, work, money and rules

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Why does a country collect taxes from people who earn money?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** do, earn · **To what, where:** collect taxes, money

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 58 «People and society — communities, work, money and rules» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/58-people-and-society/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:58-people-and-society:t6:1
# text = Why does a country collect taxes from people who earn money?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	collect	collect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	earn	earn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | a collect taxes |  |  |  | from people | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Eventuality |
| 2 | **earn** | present | people | money |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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To make everyone in the country poorer on purpose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:58-people-and-society:t6:o1:1
# text = To make everyone in the country poorer on purpose
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	poorer	poor	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | everyone |  | the country |  | poor *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everyone=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To buy sweets for schools only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:58-people-and-society:t6:o2:1
# text = To buy sweets for schools only
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	buy	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | to-infinitive |  | sweets |  |  |  | for schools | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme for school=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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To pay for shared things like hospitals and roads

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:58-people-and-society:t6:o3:1
# text = To pay for shared things like hospitals and roads
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	pay	pay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for shared things like hospitals and roads | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for thing=Theme |
| 2 | **share** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To stop people from working

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:58-people-and-society:t6:o4:1
# text = To stop people from working
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | to-infinitive |  | people |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality people=Eventuality |
| 2 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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