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description: People who earn more usually pay more tax in pounds and often a bigger share; someone on £20,000 might pay £2,000 and someone on £100,000 about £30,000. Who acts: People, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Taxes and the government's budget» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Taxes and the government's budget, sentence 13

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People who earn more usually pay more tax in pounds and often a bigger share; someone on £20,000 might pay £2,000 and someone on £100,000 about £30,000.

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**Who acts:** People, someone · **What happens:** earn, pay · **To what, where:** more, more tax, pounds

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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 (People, someone), 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:13
# text = People who earn more usually pay more tax in pounds and often a bigger share; someone on £20,000 might pay £2,000 and someone on £100,000 about £30,000.
# 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 ×3
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	earn	earn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
5	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
8	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	nsubj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	£	£	SYM	$	_	17	nmod	_	_
20	20,000	20000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
23	£	£	SYM	$	_	22	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obl
24	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	conj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	£	£	SYM	$	_	26	nmod	_	_
29	100,000	100000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
31	£	£	SYM	$	_	28	nmod	_	_
32	30,000	30,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed polarity=none, hedge=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **earn** | present | People | more |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** | present | People *not said here* | more tax and a bigger share |  | pounds |  | usually *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Asset |
| 3 | **pay** | might | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Asset |

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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:13`.

**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 ×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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