--- title: Taxes are the money people and businesses must pay to the government… — Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools · tree and pragmatics description: Taxes are the money people and businesses must pay to the government, and they pay for the shared things everyone uses: schools, hospitals, roads, street lights, bins, libraries and police. Who acts: Taxes, people, everyone. 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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, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:008-taxes-and-local-councils-bins-roads-and-schools.lesson:0 # text = Taxes are the money people and businesses must pay to the government, and they pay for the shared things everyone uses: schools, hospitals, roads, street lights, bins, libraries and police. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 008-taxes-and-local-councils-bins-roads-and-schools.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 1 Taxes tax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 businesses business NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ _ 20 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 22 nsubj _ _ 22 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 24 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obj 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 hospitals hospital NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 bins bin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 libraries library NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Taxes | the money | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pay** | must | people and businesses | the money *not said here* | | | | to the government | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | | 3 | **pay** | present | people | | | | | for the shared things | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for thing=Theme | | 4 | **share** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **use** | present | everyone | the shared things *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | 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:008-taxes-and-local-councils-bins-roads-and-schools.lesson:0`. **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. **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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