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title: Income tax is tax on what you earn; some money is tax-free, and on e… — Taxes and the government's budget · tree and pragmatics
description: Income tax is tax on what you earn; some money is tax-free, and on earnings above that the basic rate takes £1 of every £5, written 20%, so £200 of £1,000, because £1,000 ÷ 5 = £200. Who acts: Income, you, money, basic rate. A sentence of the lesson «Taxes and the government's budget» of the money c
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# Taxes and the government's budget, sentence 8

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Income tax is tax on what you earn; some money is tax-free, and on earnings above that the basic rate takes £1 of every £5, written 20%, so £200 of £1,000, because £1,000 ÷ 5 = £200.

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**Who acts:** Income, you, money, basic rate · **What happens:** be, earn, take, write · **To what, where:** tax, earnings

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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 (Income, you, money, basic rate), 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:8
# text = Income tax is tax on what you earn; some money is tax-free, and on earnings above that the basic rate takes £1 of every £5, written 20%, so £200 of £1,000, because £1,000 ÷ 5 = £200.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Income	income	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	compound	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	earn	earn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	earnings	earning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
20	above	above	ADP	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	basic	basic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
26	£	£	SYM	$	_	25	obj	_	_
27	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	£	£	SYM	$	_	26	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj
31	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
34	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	£	£	SYM	$	_	19	conj	_	_
39	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	£	£	SYM	$	_	39	nmod	_	_
42	1,000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
45	£	£	SYM	$	_	38	conj	_	_
46	1,000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
47	÷	÷	SYM	SYM	_	48	cc	_	_
48	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	46	conj	_	_
49	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	19	punct	_	_
50	£	£	SYM	$	_	19	conj	_	_
51	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Income | tax |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **earn** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | some money |  |  |  |  | tax *obl:unmarked*; free *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | present | the basic rate |  |  | earnings |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent £=Theme on earning=Destination |
| 5 | **write** | participle | the basic rate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/).

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