Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools, sentence 15

In many parts of the USA, schools are paid for partly by property tax on houses in the area, so richer areas can raise more; states and the national government add money to try to make it fairer.

Who acts: property tax, richer areas, states · What happens: pay, raise, add, try, make · To what, where: schools, many parts, more, money

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 (property tax, richer areas, states), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 parts	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 parts	amod
3	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 paid	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 USA	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 USA	det
6	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 parts	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 parts	punct
8	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 paid	nsubj:pass
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 paid	aux:pass
10	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 partly	case
12	partly	partly	ADV	_	10 paid	advmod
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 tax	case
14	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tax	compound
15	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 paid	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 houses	case
17	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tax	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 area	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 area	det
20	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 houses	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 raise	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	26 raise	advmod
23	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 areas	amod
24	areas	area	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 raise	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 raise	aux
26	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 paid	parataxis
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 raise	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 states	punct
29	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 add	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 government	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 government	det
32	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 government	amod
33	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 states	conj
34	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 raise	conj
35	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 add	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 try	mark
37	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 add	advcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 make	mark
39	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 try	xcomp
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 make	obj
41	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 make	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 paid	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pay	present · passive	property tax on houses in the area	schools	many parts of the USA	partly property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset
2	raise	can	richer areas	more			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme
3	add speech: assert	infinitive	states and the national government	money			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
4	try	to-infinitive	states and the national government not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	states and the national government not said here	money		fair property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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:15.

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 ×3. 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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