Taxes and the government's budget, sentence 12

Councils use taxes to fix roads but money is limited; at about £75 a pothole, 100 potholes cost 100 × £75 = £7,500, so they must choose what comes first.

Who acts: Councils, money, 100 potholes, potholes · What happens: use, fix, be, cost, choose, come · To what, where: taxes, roads, 100

This is a sentence of the lesson «Taxes and the government's budget» of the money 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 (Councils, money, 100 potholes, potholes), 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	Councils	council	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fix	mark
5	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 use	advcl
6	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fix	obj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 limited	cc
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 limited	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 limited	cop
10	limited	limited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 use	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 pothole	punct
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 £	case
13	about	about	ADV	_	14 £	advmod
14	£	£	SYM	_	17 pothole	compound
15	75	75	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 £	nummod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pothole	det
17	pothole	pothole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cost	punct
19	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 potholes	nummod
20	potholes	pothole	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 cost	nsubj
21	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 use	parataxis
22	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 cost	obj
23	×	×	SYM	_	22 100	flat
24	£	£	SYM	_	22 100	flat
25	75	75	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 £	nummod
26	=	=	SYM	_	27 £	case
27	£	£	SYM	_	24 £	nmod
28	7,500	7,500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 £	nummod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 choose	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	33 choose	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 choose	nsubj
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 choose	aux
33	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 cost	parataxis
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 comes	nsubj
35	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 choose	ccomp
36	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	35 comes	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	present	Councils	taxes	a £ pothole obl	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Patient
2	fix	to-infinitive	Councils not said here	roads		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent road=Patient
3	is	present	money		limited property	tree rules
4	cost	present	100 potholes	100		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme 100=Value
5	choose	must	potholes = pothole			tree rules
6	come	present			first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:money:036-taxes-and-the-governments-budget.lesson:12.

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): R5-strong ×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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