Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time, sentence 14
From 1696 to 1851 England taxed houses by the number of windows, and some people bricked up windows to pay less.
Who acts: England, people · What happens: tax, brick up, pay · To what, where: houses, 1696, windows, less
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» of the history 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 (England, 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 1696 | case |
| 2 | 1696 | 1696 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 taxed | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 1851 | case |
| 4 | 1851 | 1851 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 1696 | nmod |
| 5 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 taxed | nsubj |
| 6 | taxed | tax | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 taxed | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 number | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 number | det |
| 10 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taxed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 windows | case |
| 12 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 number | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bricked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bricked | cc |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bricked | nsubj |
| 17 | bricked | brick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taxed | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 bricked | compound:prt |
| 19 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bricked | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 pay | mark |
| 21 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 bricked | advcl |
| 22 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 pay | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 taxed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tax | past | England | houses | 1696 to 1851 | by the number of windows | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent house=Recipient | ||
| 2 | brick up | past | some people | windows | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent window=Destination | ||||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | some people not said here | less | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=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:history:068-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time.lesson:14.
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 ×1, 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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