--- title: Some tax hides in shop prices: in most US states sales tax is added… — Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools · tree and pragmatics description: Some tax hides in shop prices: in most US states sales tax is added at the till, so a $10 toy costs a bit more, while in the UK a tax called VAT is already inside the price on the label. Who acts: tax, $ toy. 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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 (tax, $ toy), 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:1 # text = Some tax hides in shop prices: in most US states sales tax is added at the till, so a $10 toy costs a bit more, while in the UK a tax called VAT is already inside the price on the label. # 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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 10 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 states state NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 12 sales sale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 compound _ _ 13 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 added add VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 till till NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 $ $ SYM $ _ 24 compound _ _ 23 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 24 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 while while SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 36 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 37 VAT vat NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:nsubj 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 39 already already ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 40 inside inside ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 xcomp _ _ 43 on on ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 label label NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 46 . . 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 | **hide** | present | some tax | | | shop prices | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in price=Location | | 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | sales tax | | most US states | | at the till | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **cost** | present | a $ toy | more | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme more=Beneficiary tax=Value | | 4 | **call** | participle | a tax *not said here* | VAT | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | a tax *not said here* | | | the price | | on the label | tree rules | 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:1`. **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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