Where money comes from, sentence 16
National Insurance is another amount taken from pay; paying it in during working life gives people the right to a state pension when they are old.
Who acts: National Insurance, paying, people · What happens: be, take, pay in, give · To what, where: amount, pay, tax, right, people
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 (National Insurance, paying, 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 | National | National | PROPN | _ | 2 Insurance | flat |
| 2 | Insurance | Insurance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 amount | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 amount | cop |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 amount | det |
| 5 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 amount | acl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 pay | case |
| 8 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 paying | punct |
| 10 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 gives | csubj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 paying | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 paying | compound:prt |
| 13 | during | during | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 14 | working | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 life | compound |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 paying | obl |
| 16 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 amount | parataxis |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gives | iobj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 right | det |
| 19 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gives | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 pension | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 pension | det |
| 22 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pension | compound |
| 23 | pension | pension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 right | nmod |
| 24 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 27 old | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 old | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 old | cop |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 gives | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 amount | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | National Insurance | another amount | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | participle | another amount not said here | pay | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from pay=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | pay in | gerund | tax | during working life | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset | ||||
| 4 | give | present | paying | the right | people | to a state pension | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient right=Theme | ||
| 5 | is | present | people | old property | tree rules |
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: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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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