Taxes and the government's budget, sentence 9
The government's budget is its plan for money; a deficit is spending more than it collects, like spending £100 and collecting £90, so it borrows £10.
Who acts: budget, deficit, government · What happens: be, spend, collect, borrow, budget · To what, where: plan, more
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 (budget, deficit, government), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 government | det |
| 2 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 budget | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 government | case |
| 4 | budget | budget | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plan | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 plan | cop |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 plan | nmod:poss |
| 7 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 money | case |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plan | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 plan | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 deficit | det |
| 12 | deficit | deficit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spending | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 spending | aux |
| 14 | spending | spend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 plan | parataxis |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 spending | obj |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 collects | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 collects | nsubj |
| 18 | collects | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 more | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spending | punct |
| 20 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 21 spending | mark |
| 21 | spending | spend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 collects | advcl |
| 22 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 21 spending | obj |
| 23 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 £ | nummod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 collecting | cc |
| 25 | collecting | collect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 spending | conj |
| 26 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 25 collecting | obj |
| 27 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 £ | nummod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 borrows | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 borrows | advmod |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 borrows | nsubj |
| 31 | borrows | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 spending | conj |
| 32 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 31 borrows | obj |
| 33 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 £ | nummod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 plan | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the government's budget | government's plan | for money | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spend | present · progressive | a deficit | more | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset | ||||
| 3 | collect | present | deficit | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | spend | gerund | deficit not said here | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Asset | |||||
| 5 | collect | gerund | deficit not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme | |||||
| 6 | borrow | present | deficit | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme | |||||
| 7 | budget | the government | nom budget «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:9.
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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