--- title: A progressive tax is one where richer people pay a bigger share; som… — Taxes and the government's budget · tree and pragmatics description: A progressive tax is one where richer people pay a bigger share; some say they should pay even more, others say it is already a lot. Who acts: progressive tax, richer people, some, Taxes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (progressive tax, richer people, some, Taxes), 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:14 # text = A progressive tax is one where richer people pay a bigger share; some say they should pay even more, others say it is already a lot. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 progressive progressive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 9 advmod _ _ 7 richer rich ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 amod _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 12 share share NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 15 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 19 even even ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 already already ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 ccomp _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a progressive tax | one | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pay** | present | richer people | a bigger share | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Asset | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **pay** | should | Taxes *= tax* | more | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | money | a lot | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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:14`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×1. **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/). - ← previous: [Taxes and the government's budget, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget/13/) - next →: [Taxes and the government's budget, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget/)