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title: why do we pay tax anyway — People and society — communities, work… · tree and pragmatics
description: why do we pay tax anyway Test 9 · ★ 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 9 · ★ · People and society — communities, work, money and rules

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why do we pay tax anyway

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** we · **What happens:** pay · **To what, where:** tax

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:58-people-and-society:t9:1
# text = why do we pay tax anyway
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | present · do-support | we | tax |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Asset |

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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 the shops richer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:58-people-and-society:t9:o1:1
# text = To make the shops richer
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only to punish people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:58-people-and-society:t9:o2:1
# text = Only to punish people
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	punish	punish	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **punish** | to-infinitive |  | people |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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So people cannot buy toys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:58-people-and-society:t9:o3:1
# text = So people cannot buy toys
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **buy** | can | people | toys |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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To pay for things everyone shares, like roads and schools

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:58-people-and-society:t9:o4:1
# text = To pay for things everyone shares, like roads and schools
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	pay	pay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
6	shares	share	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for things; like roads and schools | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for thing=Theme |
| 2 | **share** | present | everyone | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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