--- title: Tax is money people pay to the government from what they earn and sp… — Votes, parties and the people in charge · tree and pragmatics description: Tax is money people pay to the government from what they earn and spend, and it pays for schools, hospitals, roads and police. Who acts: Tax, people, government. 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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 (Tax, people, government), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.lesson:16 # text = Tax is money people pay to the government from what they earn and spend, and it pays for schools, hospitals, roads and police. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.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 ×1 1 Tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 obl _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 earn earn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 spend spend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 pays pay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 hospitals hospital NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Tax | money | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pay** | present | people | money *not said here* | | money | | to the government | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | | 3 | **earn** | present | People | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **spend** | present | People *not said here* | | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **pay** | present | government | | | | | for schools and hospitals and roads and police | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for school=Theme | 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:adult-life:031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.lesson:16`. **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 ×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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