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title: "User fee" means a tax or charge for using a public service (US). — Soft words for hard things: business and adverti… · tree and pragmatics
description: "User fee" means a tax or charge for using a public service (US). Who acts: User fee, tax. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin, sentence 20

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"User fee" means a tax or charge for using a public service (US).

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**Who acts:** User fee, tax · **What happens:** mean, use · **To what, where:** tax, public service

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» of the euphemisms 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 (User fee, tax), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:023-fees-bugs-and-spin.lesson:20
# text = "User fee" means a tax or charge for using a public service (US).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 023-fees-bugs-and-spin.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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	User	user	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fee	fee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
16	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | User fee | a tax or charge |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Topic |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | a tax or charge *not said here* | a public service |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Patient |

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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.

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**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:euphemisms:023-fees-bugs-and-spin.lesson:20`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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