Votes, parties and the people in charge, sentence 16

Tax is money people pay to the government from what they earn and spend, and it pays for schools, hospitals, roads and police.

Who acts: Tax, people, government · What happens: be, pay, earn, spend · To what, where: money

This is a sentence of the lesson «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life 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 (Tax, people, government), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 money	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 money	cop
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pay	nsubj
5	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 money	acl:relcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 government	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 government	det
8	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 what	case
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 pay	obl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 earn	nsubj
12	earn	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 what	acl:relcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 spend	cc
14	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 earn	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pays	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pays	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pays	nsubj
18	pays	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pay	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 schools	case
20	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 pays	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hospitals	punct
22	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 schools	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 roads	punct
24	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 schools	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 police	cc
26	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 schools	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 money	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Tax	money			tree rules
2	pay	present	people	money not said here	money	to the government	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset
3	earn	present	People				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	spend	present	People not said here				vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	pay	present	government			for schools and hospitals and roads and police	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for school=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, 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:adult-life:031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.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): R8-pos-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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