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title: In the UK the NHS, the National Health Service, is paid for by taxes… — Taxes and the government's budget · tree and pragmatics
description: In the UK the NHS, the National Health Service, is paid for by taxes, so an X-ray and a cast cost £0 at the hospital even though they cost hundreds of pounds to provide; other countries have different systems. Who acts: X ray, ray, other countries. A sentence of the lesson «Taxes and the government'
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# Taxes and the government's budget, sentence 11

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In the UK the NHS, the National Health Service, is paid for by taxes, so an X-ray and a cast cost £0 at the hospital even though they cost hundreds of pounds to provide; other countries have different systems.

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**Who acts:** X ray, ray, other countries · **What happens:** pay, cost, provide, have · **To what, where:** UK, hospital, hundreds, different systems

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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 (X ray, ray, other countries), 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:11
# text = In the UK the NHS, the National Health Service, is paid for by taxes, so an X-ray and a cast cost £0 at the hospital even though they cost hundreds of pounds to provide; other countries have different systems.
# 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 ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	NHS	NHS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Health	Health	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Service	Service	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	X	x	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det
25	cast	cast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
27	£	£	SYM	$	_	26	obj	_	_
28	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	even	even	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	cost	cost	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advcl
36	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:acl
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
44	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	_
45	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	systems	system	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **pay** | present · passive |  |  |  | the UK |  | for taxes | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: for tax=Theme |
| 2 | **cost** | present | a X ray and a cast |  |  | the hospital |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value |
| 3 | **cost** | past | ray | hundreds of pounds |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme hundred=Value |
| 4 | **provide** | to-infinitive | ray *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition |
| 5 | **have** | present | other countries | different systems |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent system=Patient |

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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:11`.

**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 ×3. **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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