--- title: From 1696 to 1851 England taxed houses by the number of windows, and… — Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through… · tree and pragmatics description: From 1696 to 1851 England taxed houses by the number of windows, and some people bricked up windows to pay less. Who acts: England, people. A sentence of the lesson «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/68-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time/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/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Rules, courts, police, taxes and armie…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/68-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time/) / 14 # Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time, sentence 14 From 1696 to 1851 England taxed houses by the number of windows, and some people bricked up windows to pay less. **Who acts:** England, people · **What happens:** tax, brick up, pay · **To what, where:** houses, 1696, windows, less This is a sentence of the lesson «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» of the history 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 (England, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:068-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time.lesson:14 # text = From 1696 to 1851 England taxed houses by the number of windows, and some people bricked up windows to pay less. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 068-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 From from ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1696 1696 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 1851 1851 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 5 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 taxed tax VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 bricked brick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 22 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 23 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tax** | past | England | houses | | 1696 to 1851 | | by the number of windows | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent house=Recipient | | 2 | **brick up** | past | some people | windows | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent window=Destination | | 3 | **pay** | to-infinitive | some people *not said here* | less | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Asset | 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:history:068-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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