Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim, sentence 7

It was reported that some governments taxed sugary drinks to help people drink less sugar; some say it helps health, others say it costs poorer families more and people should choose for themselves.

Who acts: governments, people, some, claim, others · What happens: report, tax, help, drink, say, cost · To what, where: claim, sugary drinks, people, less sugar, health, poorer families · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim» 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 (governments, people, some, claim), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reported	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reported	aux:pass
3	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 taxed	mark
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 governments	det
6	governments	government	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 taxed	nsubj
7	taxed	tax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reported	ccomp
8	sugary	sugary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 drinks	amod
9	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 taxed	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 help	mark
11	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 taxed	advcl
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 help	obj
13	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 help	xcomp
14	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 sugar	amod
15	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drink	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 say	nsubj
18	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reported	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 helps	nsubj
20	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 say	ccomp
21	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 helps	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 say	punct
23	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 say	nsubj
24	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reported	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 costs	nsubj
26	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 say	ccomp
27	poorer	poor	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 families	amod
28	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 costs	obj
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 costs	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 choose	cc
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 choose	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 choose	aux
33	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 costs	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 themselves	case
35	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 choose	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reported	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	report	past · passive		claim		vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	tax	past	some governments	sugary drinks		vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent drink=Recipient
3	help	to-infinitive	some governments not said here	people		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	drink	infinitive	people not said here	less sugar		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient
5	say speech: assert	present	some			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	help	present	claim	health		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=Beneficiary
7	say speech: assert	present	others			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	cost	present	claim	poorer families		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme family=Value
9	choose	should	people		for governments = government	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for themselves=Beneficiary

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:040-putting-it-together.lesson:7.

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, R8-pos-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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