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title: In many parts of the USA, schools are paid for partly by property ta… — Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools · tree and pragmatics
description: In many parts of the USA, schools are paid for partly by property tax on houses in the area, so richer areas can raise more; states and the national government add money to try to make it fairer. Who acts: property tax, richer areas, states. A sentence of the lesson «Taxes and local councils: bins, 
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# Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools, sentence 15

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In many parts of the USA, schools are paid for partly by property tax on houses in the area, so richer areas can raise more; states and the national government add money to try to make it fairer.

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**Who acts:** property tax, richer areas, states · **What happens:** pay, raise, add, try, make · **To what, where:** schools, many parts, more, money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools» of the politics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (property tax, richer areas, states), 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:15
# text = In many parts of the USA, schools are paid for partly by property tax on houses in the area, so richer areas can raise more; states and the national government add money to try to make it fairer.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obl
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
27	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
34	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
35	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:xcomp
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	xcomp	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | present · passive | property tax on houses in the area | schools |  | many parts of the USA |  | partly *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset |
| 2 | **raise** | can | richer areas | more |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | states and the national government | money |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 4 | **try** | to-infinitive | states and the national government *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | states and the national government *not said here* | money |  |  |  | fair *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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.

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**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 ×3. **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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