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title: Taxes are money that people and businesses must pay to the governmen… — Taxes and the government's budget · tree and pragmatics
description: Taxes are money that people and businesses must pay to the government, and they pay for things everybody shares: schools, hospitals, roads, bins and police. Who acts: Taxes, people. A sentence of the lesson «Taxes and the government's budget» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Taxes and the government's budget, sentence 0

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Taxes are money that people and businesses must pay to the government, and they pay for things everybody shares: schools, hospitals, roads, bins and police.

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**Who acts:** Taxes, people · **What happens:** be, pay · **To what, where:** money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Taxes and the government's budget» of the money 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, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:036-taxes-and-the-governments-budget.lesson:0
# text = Taxes are money that people and businesses must pay to the government, and they pay for things everybody shares: schools, hospitals, roads, bins and police.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 036-taxes-and-the-governments-budget.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	Taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	businesses	business	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	20	compound	_	_
20	shares	share	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
22	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	appos	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Taxes | money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | must | people and businesses | money |  |  |  | to the government | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Asset |
| 3 | **pay** | present | people |  |  |  |  | for things and everybody shares | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for thing=Theme |

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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:money:036-taxes-and-the-governments-budget.lesson:0`.

**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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