--- title: Most politicians want people to be better off; they disagree about t… — Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more · tree and pragmatics description: Most politicians want people to be better off; they disagree about the way: some want lower taxes so people keep more money, others want more spending to help families, and many want a mix. Who acts: Most politicians, people, politicians, some. 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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 (Most politicians, people, politicians, some), 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:6 # text = Most politicians want people to be better off; they disagree about the way: some want lower taxes so people keep more money, others want more spending to help families, and 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): R7-rel-agree ×4 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 politicians politician NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 7 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 xcomp _ _ 8 off off ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 12 about about ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 nsubj _ _ 17 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 18 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 19 taxes tax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 amod _ _ 24 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 28 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 29 spending spending NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:xcomp 32 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 nsubj _ _ 36 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 mix mix NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present | Most politicians | people | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot people=Theme | | 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **disagree** | present | politicians *= politician* | | | | | about the way | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about way=Topic | | 4 | **want** | present | some | lower taxes | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tax=Theme | | 5 | **keep** | present | people | more money | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | | 6 | **want** | present | others | more spending | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot spending=Theme | | 7 | **help** | to-infinitive | others *not said here* | families | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Beneficiary | | 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:6`. **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 ×4. **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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