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title: Taxes are money people pay to pay for things everyone shares, such a… — People and society — communities, work, money an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Taxes are money people pay to pay for things everyone shares, such as roads, schools and hospitals. Who acts: Taxes, people, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «People and society — communities, work, money and rules» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# People and society — communities, work, money and rules, sentence 16

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Taxes are money people pay to pay for things everyone shares, such as roads, schools and hospitals.

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**Who acts:** Taxes, people, everyone · **What happens:** be, pay, share · **To what, where:** money, things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «People and society — communities, work, money and rules» of the world 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, people, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:058-people-and-society.lesson:16
# text = Taxes are money people pay to pay for things everyone shares, such as roads, schools and hospitals.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 058-people-and-society.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	nsubj	_	_
11	shares	share	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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 | **is a** | present | Taxes | money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | present | people | money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset |
| 3 | **pay** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for things such roads and schools and hospitals | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for thing=Theme |
| 4 | **share** | present | everyone | things such roads and schools and hospitals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:world:058-people-and-society.lesson:16`.

**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): R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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