What politics is: deciding things together, sentence 9

People disagree about how much tax there should be and who should pay most, which is one reason tax makes people cross.

Who acts: People, tax · What happens: disagree, be, pay, make, cross · To what, where: most, one reason, people

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 (People, tax), 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	2 disagree	nsubj
2	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	6 tax	case
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tax	amod
6	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 disagree	obl
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 tax	advmod
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tax	acl:relcl
9	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 should	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pay	cc
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 pay	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 pay	aux
13	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 be	conj
14	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 pay	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 makes	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 reason	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 reason	cop
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 reason	nummod
19	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pay	parataxis
20	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 makes	nsubj
21	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 reason	acl:relcl
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 makes	obj
23	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 makes	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 disagree	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	disagree	present	People		about much tax	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about tax=Topic
2	be	infinitive	People not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pay	should		most		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Asset
4	is a	present		one reason		tree rules
5	make	present	tax	people		tree rules
6	cross	infinitive	people not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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:politics:001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.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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