Where money comes from, sentence 15
Taxes pay for schools, the NHS, roads, police and benefits.
Who acts: Taxes · What happens: pay
This is a sentence of the lesson «Where money comes from» 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 (Taxes), 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 | Taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pay | nsubj |
| 2 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 schools | case |
| 4 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pay | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 NHS | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 NHS | det |
| 7 | NHS | NHS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 schools | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 roads | punct |
| 9 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 schools | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 police | punct |
| 11 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 schools | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 benefits | cc |
| 13 | benefits | benefit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 schools | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present | Taxes | for schools and the NHS and roads and police and benefits | 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:005-where-money-comes-from.lesson:15.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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