---
title: A tax cut leaves more money in people's pockets but less for public… — Taxes and the government's budget · tree and pragmatics
description: A tax cut leaves more money in people's pockets but less for public services; a tax rise does the opposite; people disagree about which is better. Who acts: tax cut, people. A sentence of the lesson «Taxes and the government's budget» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget/10/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / [Taxes and the government's budget](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget/) / 10

# Taxes and the government's budget, sentence 10

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A tax cut leaves more money in people's pockets but less for public services; a tax rise does the opposite; people disagree about which is better.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** tax cut, people · **What happens:** leave, disagree, be · **To what, where:** more money, pockets

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (tax cut, 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:10
# text = A tax cut leaves more money in people's pockets but less for public services; a tax rise does the opposite; people disagree about which is better.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:det
2	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj
20	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	disagree	disagree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
26	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obl
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present | a tax cut | more money but public services |  | people's pockets |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent money=Theme in pocket=Location |
| 2 | **disagree** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:10`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Taxes and the government's budget, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget/9/)
- next →: [Taxes and the government's budget, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget/11/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget/)

