--- title: The government's budget is its plan for money; a deficit is spending… — Taxes and the government's budget · tree and pragmatics description: The government's budget is its plan for money; a deficit is spending more than it collects, like spending £100 and collecting £90, so it borrows £10. Who acts: budget, deficit, government. 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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 (budget, deficit, government), 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:9 # text = The government's budget is its plan for money; a deficit is spending more than it collects, like spending £100 and collecting £90, so it borrows £10. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 budget budget NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 deficit deficit NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 spending spend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl 15 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 obj _ _ 16 than than SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 collects collect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 like like SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 spending spend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 22 £ £ SYM $ _ 21 obj _ _ 23 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 collecting collect VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 26 £ £ SYM $ _ 25 obj _ _ 27 90 90 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 borrows borrow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 32 £ £ SYM $ _ 31 obj _ _ 33 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the government's budget | government's plan | | | | for money | tree rules | | 2 | **spend** | present · progressive | a deficit | more | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset | | 3 | **collect** | present | deficit | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **spend** | gerund | deficit *not said here* | | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Asset | | 5 | **collect** | gerund | deficit *not said here* | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme | | 6 | **borrow** | present | deficit | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme | | 7 | **budget** | | the government | | | | | | nom budget «possession intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:9`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Taxes and the government's budget, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget/8/) - next →: [Taxes and the government's budget, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget/)