--- title: Taxes pay for schools, the NHS, roads, police and benefits. — Where money comes from · tree and pragmatics description: Taxes pay for schools, the NHS, roads, police and benefits. Who acts: Taxes. A sentence of the lesson «Where money comes from» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Where money comes from, sentence 15 Taxes pay for schools, the NHS, roads, police and benefits. **Who acts:** Taxes · **What happens:** pay 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 (Taxes), 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:15 # text = Taxes pay for schools, the NHS, roads, police and benefits. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 Taxes tax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 NHS NHS PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 13 benefits benefit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | present | Taxes | | | | | for schools and the NHS and roads and police and benefits | 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:005-where-money-comes-from.lesson:15`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Where money comes from, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/14/) - next →: [Where money comes from, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/)