Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools, sentence 14
Lower taxes leave people more of their own money; higher taxes can pay for more services; different parties choose different mixes.
Who acts: Lower taxes, higher taxes, different parties · What happens: leave, pay, choose · To what, where: more, people, different mixes
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 (Lower taxes, higher taxes, different parties), 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 | Lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 taxes | amod |
| 2 | taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 leave | nsubj |
| 3 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 leave | iobj |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 leave | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 money | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 money | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 money | amod |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 more | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 pay | punct |
| 11 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 taxes | amod |
| 12 | taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pay | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 pay | aux |
| 14 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 leave | parataxis |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 services | case |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 services | amod |
| 17 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pay | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 choose | punct |
| 19 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 parties | amod |
| 20 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 choose | nsubj |
| 21 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 leave | parataxis |
| 22 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 mixes | amod |
| 23 | mixes | mix | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 choose | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | Lower taxes | more of people's own money | people | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent people=Theme more=Attribute | |||
| 2 | pay | can | higher taxes | for more services | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for service=Theme | ||||
| 3 | choose | present | different parties | different mixes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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:008-taxes-and-local-councils-bins-roads-and-schools.lesson:14.
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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