Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools, sentence 0
Taxes are the money people and businesses must pay to the government, and they pay for the shared things everyone uses: schools, hospitals, roads, street lights, bins, libraries and police.
Who acts: Taxes, people, everyone · What happens: be, pay, share, use · To what, where: money, shared things
This is a sentence of the lesson «Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools» 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, everyone), 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 | 4 money | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 money | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 money | det |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pay | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 businesses | cc |
| 7 | businesses | business | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 people | conj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 pay | aux |
| 9 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 money | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 government | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 government | det |
| 12 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pay | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pay | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pay | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pay | nsubj |
| 16 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pay | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 things | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 things | det |
| 19 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 things | amod |
| 20 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pay | obl |
| 21 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 22 uses | nsubj |
| 22 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 things | acl:relcl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 uses | punct |
| 24 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 things | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hospitals | punct |
| 26 | hospitals | hospital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 schools | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 roads | punct |
| 28 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 schools | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 lights | punct |
| 30 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lights | compound |
| 31 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 schools | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 bins | punct |
| 33 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 schools | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 libraries | punct |
| 35 | libraries | library | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 schools | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 police | cc |
| 37 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 schools | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 money | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Taxes | the money | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay | must | people and businesses | the money not said here | to the government | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | |||
| 3 | pay | present | people | for the shared things | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for thing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | share | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | use | present | everyone | the shared things not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
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:008-taxes-and-local-councils-bins-roads-and-schools.lesson:0.
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. 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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