--- title: From 1696 to 1851 England taxed houses by their windows, so people b… — Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through… · tree and pragmatics description: From 1696 to 1851 England taxed houses by their windows, so people bricked some up, and you can still see the dark patches today. Who acts: England, people, you. A sentence of the lesson «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time, sentence 6 From 1696 to 1851 England taxed houses by their windows, so people bricked some up, and you can still see the dark patches today. **Who acts:** England, people, you · **What happens:** tax, brick up, see · **To what, where:** houses, 1696, some, dark patches 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, you), 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:6 # text = From 1696 to 1851 England taxed houses by their windows, so people bricked some up, and you can still see the dark patches today. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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 14 advcl _ _ 7 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obj 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 bricked brick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 14 obj _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 still still ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 patches patch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 26 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14: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 houses's windows | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent house=Recipient | | 2 | **brick up** | past | people | some | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Destination | | 3 | **see** | can | you | the dark patches | | | still; today | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer patch=Stimulus | 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:6`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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