Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more, sentence 20
Some say lower taxes leave people freer and help businesses create jobs; others say more public spending helps those struggling most; many want a mix.
Who acts: Some, lower taxes, businesses, others, more public spending, many · What happens: say, leave, help, create, struggle, want · To what, where: people, businesses, jobs, those, most, mix · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more» 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 (Some, lower taxes, businesses, others), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 taxes | amod |
| 4 | taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 leave | nsubj |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | ccomp |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 leave | obj |
| 7 | freer | free | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 leave | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 help | cc |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 leave | conj |
| 10 | businesses | business | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 help | obj |
| 11 | create | create | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 help | xcomp |
| 12 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 create | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 say | nsubj |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | conj |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 spending | amod |
| 17 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 spending | amod |
| 18 | spending | spending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 helps | nsubj |
| 19 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | ccomp |
| 20 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 helps | obj |
| 21 | struggling | struggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 those | acl |
| 22 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 struggling | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 want | punct |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 want | nsubj |
| 25 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | parataxis |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 mix | det |
| 27 | mix | mix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 want | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Some | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | leave | present | lower taxes | people | free property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||
| 3 | help | present | lower taxes not said here | businesses | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent business=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | create | infinitive | businesses not said here | jobs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Result | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | help | present | more public spending | those | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | struggle | gerund | most | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | want | present | many | a mix | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mix=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:018-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more.lesson:20.
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 ×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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