--- title: Some say lower taxes leave people freer and help businesses create j… — Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more · tree and pragmatics description: Some say lower taxes leave people freer and help businesses create jobs; others say more public spending helps those struggling most; many want a mix. Who acts: Some, lower taxes, businesses, others. A sentence of the lesson «Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more» of the politics course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more/20/) [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/) / [Prices, money and jobs: why everything…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more/) / 20 # Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more, sentence 20 Some say lower taxes leave people freer and help businesses create jobs; others say more public spending helps those struggling most; many want a mix. **Who acts:** Some, lower taxes, businesses, others, more public spending, many · **What happens:** say, leave, help, create, struggle, want · **To what, where:** people, businesses, jobs, those, most, mix · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more» 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 (Some, lower taxes, businesses, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:018-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more.lesson:20 # text = Some say lower taxes leave people freer and help businesses create jobs; others say more public spending helps those struggling most; many want a mix. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 018-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more.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 ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 nsubj _ _ 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ _ 4 taxes tax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 freer free ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 xcomp _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 businesses business NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj 11 create create VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 17 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 spending spending NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 20 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 19 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 21 struggling struggle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 nmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 nsubj _ _ 25 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 mix mix NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 . . 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Some | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **leave** | present | lower taxes | people | | | | free *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 3 | **help** | present | lower taxes *not said here* | businesses | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent business=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **create** | infinitive | businesses *not said here* | jobs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Result | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **help** | present | more public spending | those | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary | | 7 | **struggle** | gerund | | most | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **want** | present | many | a mix | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mix=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:018-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more.lesson:20`. **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 ×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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