--- title: Taxes are money people and businesses must pay to the government; th… — What politics is: deciding things together · tree and pragmatics description: Taxes are money people and businesses must pay to the government; they pay for public services such as schools, hospitals, roads and police. Who acts: Taxes, people. 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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 (Taxes, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.lesson:8 # text = Taxes are money people and businesses must pay to the government; they pay for public services such as schools, hospitals, roads and police. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Taxes tax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 businesses business NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 services service NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 20 case _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 18 fixed _ _ 20 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 hospitals hospital NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 appos _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | Taxes | money | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pay** | must | people and businesses | money *not said here* | | | | to the government | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | | 3 | **pay** | present | People | | | | | for public services such schools and hospitals | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for service=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:politics:001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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. 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