Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools, sentence 4

Big countries are split into parts with their own leaders, like US governors and Canadian or Australian premiers, and grown-ups argue at Sunday lunch about whether taxes should be lower so people keep more money, or higher so there are better services.

Who acts: grown ups, taxes, people, better services · What happens: split, grow, argue, be, keep · To what, where: Big countries, parts, Sunday lunch, 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 (grown ups, taxes, people, better services), 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	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 countries	amod
2	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 split	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 split	aux:pass
4	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 parts	case
6	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 split	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 leaders	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 leaders	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 leaders	amod
10	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 parts	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 governors	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 governors	case
13	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 governors	compound
14	governors	governor	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 leaders	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 premiers	cc
16	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 premiers	amod
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 Australian	cc
18	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Canadian	conj
19	premiers	premier	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 governors	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 argue	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 argue	cc
22	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 ups	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 ups	punct
24	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 argue	nsubj
25	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 split	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 lunch	case
27	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 lunch	compound
28	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 argue	obl
29	about	about	SCONJ	_	34 lower	mark
30	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	34 lower	mark
31	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 lower	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 lower	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 lower	cop
34	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 argue	advcl
35	so	so	ADV	_	37 keep	advmod
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 keep	nsubj
37	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 lower	advcl
38	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 money	amod
39	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 keep	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 higher	punct
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 higher	cc
42	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 lower	conj
43	so	so	ADV	_	45 are	advmod
44	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	45 are	expl
45	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 higher	advcl
46	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	47 services	amod
47	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 are	nsubj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 split	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	split	present · passive		Big countries		into parts with countries's own leaders like US governors and Canadian premiers result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into part=Result
2	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	argue speech: disagree	present	grown ups		Sunday lunch		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	should	taxes			low property	tree rules
5	keep	present	people	more money			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
6	be		taxes not said here				tree rules
7	does	present	better services		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:4.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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