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title: Picture your classroom: it was reported that each pupil in a state s… — Taxes and the government's budget · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture your classroom: it was reported that each pupil in a state school costs about £7,000 a year, so a class of 30 costs about 30 × £7,000 = £210,000, and that money comes from everyone, through taxes. Who acts: you, pupil, class, money. A sentence of the lesson «Taxes and the government's budget
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# Taxes and the government's budget, sentence 1

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Picture your classroom: it was reported that each pupil in a state school costs about £7,000 a year, so a class of 30 costs about 30 × £7,000 = £210,000, and that money comes from everyone, through taxes.

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**Who acts:** you, pupil, class, money · **What happens:** picture, report, cost, come · **To what, where:** classroom, 30 ×, everyone

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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 (you, pupil, class, money), 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:1
# text = Picture your classroom: it was reported that each pupil in a state school costs about £7,000 a year, so a class of 30 costs about 30 × £7,000 = £210,000, and that money comes from everyone, through taxes.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	classroom	classroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	£	£	SYM	$	_	15	obj	_	_
18	7,000	7000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	_
27	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
28	about	about	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	×	×	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
31	£	£	SYM	$	_	30	acl:relcl	_	_
32	7,000	7000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
33	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	34	case	_	_
34	£	£	SYM	$	_	31	nmod	_	_
35	210,000	210,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	40	obl	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	through	through	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | your classroom |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent classroom=Theme |
| 2 | **report** | past · passive |  | classroom |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **cost** | present | each pupil in a state school |  |  |  | year |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value |
| 4 | **cost** | present | a class  30 | 30 × |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme ×=Value |
| 5 | **come** | present | that money |  |  | everyone |  | through taxes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from everyone=Initial\_Location through tax=Destination |

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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:1`.

**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. **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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