--- title: Income tax is money taken from earnings for the government; people w… — Where money comes from · tree and pragmatics description: Income tax is money taken from earnings for the government; people who earn more pay more, but "half of it goes to the taxman" is usually an exaggeration. Who acts: Income tax, people, half. A sentence of the lesson «Where money comes from» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Where money comes from](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/) / 14 # Where money comes from, sentence 14 Income tax is money taken from earnings for the government; people who earn more pay more, but "half of it goes to the taxman" is usually an exaggeration. **Who acts:** Income tax, people, half · **What happens:** be, take, earn, pay, go · **To what, where:** money, earnings, more, taxman, exaggeration · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Where money comes from» of the adult life 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 (Income tax, people, half), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:005-where-money-comes-from.lesson:14 # text = Income tax is money taken from earnings for the government; people who earn more pay more, but "half of it goes to the taxman" is usually an exaggeration. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 005-where-money-comes-from.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): R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Income income NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 earnings earning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 earn earn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obj 16 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 18 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=16:punct 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 21 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 24 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nmod _ _ 24 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 csubj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 taxman taxman NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 30 usually usually ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 exaggeration exaggeration NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 33 . . 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 | **is a** | present | Income tax | money but a exaggeration | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | participle | | money but a exaggeration *not said here* | | earnings for the government | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from earning=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **earn** | present | people | more | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | | 4 | **pay** | present | people | more | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | present | half of money | | | the taxman | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to taxman=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **is a** | present | Income tax *not said here* | a exaggeration | | | | usually *property* | tree rules | 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:005-where-money-comes-from.lesson:14`. **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): R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Where money comes from, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/13/) - next →: [Where money comes from, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/)