Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness, sentence 16

Most people accept tax as the price of public services; they argue about how much and what it is spent on.

Who acts: Most people, people · What happens: accept, argue, spend · To what, where: tax

This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» 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 (Most people, people), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 accept	nsubj
3	accept	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accept	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 price	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 price	det
7	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accept	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 services	case
9	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 services	amod
10	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 price	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 argue	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 argue	nsubj
13	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 accept	parataxis
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 much	case
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 argue	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 what	cc
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 much	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 spent	nsubj:pass
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 spent	aux:pass
21	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 what	acl:relcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	21 spent	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 accept	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accept	present	Most people	tax	as the price of public services	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent tax=Theme as price=Attribute
2	argue speech: disagree	present	people		about much	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about much=Topic
3	spend	present · passive		tax		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

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:033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.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): no change. 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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