Taxes and the government's budget, sentence 13

People who earn more usually pay more tax in pounds and often a bigger share; someone on £20,000 might pay £2,000 and someone on £100,000 about £30,000.

Who acts: People, someone · What happens: earn, pay · To what, where: more, more tax, pounds

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 (People, someone), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 earn	nsubj
3	earn	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 People	acl:relcl
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 earn	obj
5	usually	usually	ADV	_	6 pay	advmod
6	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 earn	advcl
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 tax	amod
8	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pay	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 pounds	case
10	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pay	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 share	cc
12	often	often	ADV	_	15 share	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 share	det
14	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 share	amod
15	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tax	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 pay	punct
17	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 pay	nsubj
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 £	case
19	£	£	SYM	_	17 someone	nmod
20	20,000	20000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 £	nummod
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 pay	aux
22	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 People	parataxis
23	£	£	SYM	_	22 pay	obj
24	2,000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 £	nummod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 someone	cc
26	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 £	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 £	case
28	£	£	SYM	_	26 someone	nmod
29	100,000	100000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 £	nummod
30	about	about	ADV	_	31 £	advmod
31	£	£	SYM	_	28 £	nmod
32	30,000	30,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 £	nummod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 People	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
hedged: yes
teacher: changed polarity=none, hedge=1

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	earn	present	People	more			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme
2	pay	present	People not said here	more tax and a bigger share	pounds	usually property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Asset
3	pay	might	someone				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=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:money:036-taxes-and-the-governments-budget.lesson:13.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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