Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more, sentence 6

Most politicians want people to be better off; they disagree about the way: some want lower taxes so people keep more money, others want more spending to help families, and many want a mix.

Who acts: Most politicians, people, politicians, some, others, many · What happens: want, be, disagree, keep, help · To what, where: people, lower taxes, more money, more spending, families, mix

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 (Most politicians, people, politicians, some), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 politicians	amod
2	politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 want	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 better	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 better	cop
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 want	xcomp
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 better	compound:prt
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 disagree	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 disagree	nsubj
11	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 want	parataxis
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 way	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 disagree	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 want	punct
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 want	nsubj
17	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 disagree	parataxis
18	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 taxes	amod
19	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 want	obj
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 keep	advmod
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 keep	nsubj
22	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 want	conj
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 money	amod
24	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 keep	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 want	punct
26	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 want	nsubj
27	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 keep	conj
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 spending	amod
29	spending	spending	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 want	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 help	mark
31	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 spending	acl
32	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 help	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 want	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 want	cc
35	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 want	nsubj
36	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 keep	parataxis
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 mix	det
38	mix	mix	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 want	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	Most politicians	people		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot people=Theme
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	people not said here		good property	tree rules
3	disagree	present	politicians = politician		about the way	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about way=Topic
4	want	present	some	lower taxes		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tax=Theme
5	keep	present	people	more money		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
6	want	present	others	more spending		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot spending=Theme
7	help	to-infinitive	others not said here	families		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Beneficiary
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:6.

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 ×4. 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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