Taxes and the government's budget, sentence 14

A progressive tax is one where richer people pay a bigger share; some say they should pay even more, others say it is already a lot.

Who acts: progressive tax, richer people, some, Taxes, others, money · What happens: be, pay, say · To what, where: one, bigger share, more, lot · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (progressive tax, richer people, some, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tax	det
2	progressive	progressive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tax	amod
3	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 pay	advmod
7	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pay	nsubj
9	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 share	det
11	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 share	amod
12	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pay	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	parataxis
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pay	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 pay	aux
18	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 say	ccomp
19	even	even	ADV	_	20 more	advmod
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 pay	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 say	punct
22	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 say	nsubj
23	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 say	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lot	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 lot	cop
26	already	already	ADV	_	28 lot	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 lot	det
28	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 say	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	a progressive tax	one	tree rules
2	pay	present	richer people	a bigger share	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Asset
3	say speech: assert	present	some		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pay	should	Taxes = tax	more	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset
5	say speech: assert	present	others		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	money	a lot	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:money:036-taxes-and-the-governments-budget.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): 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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