--- title: Some taxes are taken from wages, called income tax; some hide inside… — Taxes and the government's budget · tree and pragmatics description: Some taxes are taken from wages, called income tax; some hide inside prices, like VAT, which is £2 of a £12 toy in the UK; and council tax pays for local things like potholes and bins. Who acts: wages, some, VAT, council tax. 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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 (wages, some, VAT, council tax), 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:2 # text = Some taxes are taken from wages, called income tax; some hide inside prices, like VAT, which is £2 of a £12 toy in the UK; and council tax pays for local things like potholes and bins. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 taxes tax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 wages wage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 9 income income NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 13 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 13 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 14 inside inside ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 15 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 VAT vat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 £ £ SYM $ _ 23 compound _ _ 23 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 acl:relcl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 £ £ SYM $ _ 28 compound _ _ 27 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 pays pay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 40 like like ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 potholes pothole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 bins bin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:conj 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present · passive | | some taxes | | wages | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from wage=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **call** | participle | wages *not said here* | income tax | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tax=Recipient | | 3 | **hide** | present | some | inside prices like VAT | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | VAT | £ 2 | | | | of a £ 12 toy in the UK | tree rules | | 5 | **pay** | present | council tax | | | | | for local things like potholes and bins | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for thing=Theme | 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:2`. **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, 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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget/1/) - next →: [Taxes and the government's budget, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget/)