--- title: It was reported that some governments taxed sugary drinks to help pe… — Putting it together: explain each side, check th… · tree and pragmatics description: It was reported that some governments taxed sugary drinks to help people drink less sugar; some say it helps health, others say it costs poorer families more and people should choose for themselves. Who acts: governments, people, some, claim. 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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 (governments, people, some, claim), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:040-putting-it-together.lesson:7 # text = It was reported that some governments taxed sugary drinks to help people drink less sugar; some say it helps health, others say it costs poorer families more and people should choose for themselves. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 040-putting-it-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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 6 det _ _ 6 governments government NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 taxed tax VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 sugary sugary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 drinks drink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 amod _ _ 15 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 nsubj _ _ 18 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 21 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 27 poorer poor ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 amod _ _ 28 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obj 29 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 32 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 33 obl _ _ 36 . . 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 | **report** | past · passive | | claim | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **tax** | past | some governments | sugary drinks | | | | | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent drink=Recipient | | 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | some governments *not said here* | people | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **drink** | infinitive | people *not said here* | less sugar | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **help** | present | claim | health | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=Beneficiary | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **cost** | present | claim | poorer families | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme family=Value | | 9 | **choose** | should | people | | | | | for governments *= government* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for themselves=Beneficiary | 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:040-putting-it-together.lesson:7`. **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, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Putting it together: explain each side…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/40-putting-it-together/6/) - next →: [Putting it together: explain each side…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/40-putting-it-together/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/40-putting-it-together/)