--- title: Lower taxes leave people more of their own money; higher taxes can p… — Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools · tree and pragmatics description: Lower taxes leave people more of their own money; higher taxes can pay for more services; different parties choose different mixes. Who acts: Lower taxes, higher taxes, different parties. 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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 (Lower taxes, higher taxes, different parties), 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:14 # text = Lower taxes leave people more of their own money; higher taxes can pay for more services; different parties choose different mixes. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 taxes tax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 iobj _ _ 5 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 12 taxes tax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 amod _ _ 17 services service NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 parties party NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 22 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 mixes mix NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 . . 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 | **leave** | present | Lower taxes | more of people's own money | people | | | | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent people=Theme more=Attribute | | 2 | **pay** | can | higher taxes | | | | | for more services | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for service=Theme | | 3 | **choose** | present | different parties | different mixes | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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:008-taxes-and-local-councils-bins-roads-and-schools.lesson:14`. **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 ×2. **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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