--- title: People disagree about how much tax there should be and who should pa… — What politics is: deciding things together · tree and pragmatics description: People disagree about how much tax there should be and who should pay most, which is one reason tax makes people cross. Who acts: People, tax. A sentence of the lesson «What politics is: deciding things together» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/1-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / [What politics is: deciding things toge…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/1-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together/) / 9 # What politics is: deciding things together, sentence 9 People disagree about how much tax there should be and who should pay most, which is one reason tax makes people cross. **Who acts:** People, tax · **What happens:** disagree, be, pay, make, cross · **To what, where:** most, one reason, people This is a sentence of the lesson «What politics is: deciding things together» of the politics 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 (People, tax), 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:9 # text = People disagree about how much tax there should be and who should pay most, which is one reason tax makes people cross. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 5 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 8 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 12 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 14 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ _ 20 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **disagree** | present | People | | | | | about much tax | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about tax=Topic | | 2 | **be** | infinitive | People *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **pay** | should | | most | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Asset | | 4 | **is a** | present | | one reason | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | present | tax | people | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **cross** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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: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. 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