--- title: In most US states, sales tax is added at the till rather than shown… — Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools · tree and pragmatics description: In most US states, sales tax is added at the till rather than shown on the label; it pays for things like roads, police and schools. Who acts: money. 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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 (money), 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:6 # text = In most US states, sales tax is added at the till rather than shown on the label; it pays for things like roads, police and schools. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 3 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 states state NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 sales sale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 compound _ _ 7 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 added add VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 till till NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 15 cc _ _ 14 than than ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 label label NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 pays pay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:conj 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | sales tax | | most US states | | at the till | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **show** | participle | | | | the label | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **pay** | present | money | | | | | for things like roads and police and schools | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for thing=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:6`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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. 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