What politics is: deciding things together, sentence 8
Taxes are money people and businesses must pay to the government; they pay for public services such as schools, hospitals, roads and police.
Who acts: Taxes, people · What happens: be, pay · To what, where: money
This is a sentence of the lesson «What politics is: deciding things together» of the politics 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 (Taxes, 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 | Taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 money | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 money | cop |
| 3 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pay | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 businesses | cc |
| 6 | businesses | business | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 people | conj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 pay | aux |
| 8 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 money | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 government | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 government | det |
| 11 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pay | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 pay | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pay | nsubj |
| 14 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 money | parataxis |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 services | case |
| 16 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 services | amod |
| 17 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pay | obl |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 20 schools | case |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 such | fixed |
| 20 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 services | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hospitals | punct |
| 22 | hospitals | hospital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 schools | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 roads | punct |
| 24 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 services | appos |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 police | cc |
| 26 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 roads | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 money | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Taxes | money | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay | must | people and businesses | money not said here | to the government | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | |||
| 3 | pay | present | People | for public services such schools and hospitals | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for service=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:politics:001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.lesson:8.
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, R7-rel-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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