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title: Taxes pay for schools, hospitals and roads; Jesus said, "Give back t… — Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly · tree and pragmatics
description: Taxes pay for schools, hospitals and roads; Jesus said, "Give back to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's" (Mark 12:17), and Paul, "If you owe taxes, pay taxes" (Romans 13:7). Who acts: Taxes, Jesus, you. A sentence of the lesson «Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly» of the
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# Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly, sentence 15

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Taxes pay for schools, hospitals and roads; Jesus said, "Give back to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's" (Mark 12:17), and Paul, "If you owe taxes, pay taxes" (Romans 13:7).

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**Who acts:** Taxes, Jesus, you · **What happens:** pay, say, give back, be, owe · **To what, where:** Caesar, taxes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly» of the religion ethics 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 (Taxes, Jesus, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:096-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly.lesson:15
# text = Taxes pay for schools, hospitals and roads; Jesus said, "Give back to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's" (Mark 12:17), and Paul, "If you owe taxes, pay taxes" (Romans 13:7).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 096-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:appos
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Caesar	Caesar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	Caesar	Caesar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obl	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Mark	Mark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	12:17	12:17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	flat	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=44:punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	_
39	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	owe	owe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	_
42	taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
44	pay	pay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
45	taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
46	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	44	punct	_	_
47	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	48	punct	_	_
48	Romans	Romans	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	44	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:appos
49	13:7	13:7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	48	flat	_	_
50	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	48	punct	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | Taxes |  |  |  |  | for schools and hospitals and roads | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for school=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give back** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | Caesar |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Theme to caesar=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | 's Caesar and God | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | 's God and Mark and Paul | tree rules |
| 6 | **owe** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | taxes |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent tax=Theme |
| 7 | **pay** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | taxes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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, R6-punct-agree ×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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