Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools, sentence 5
Tax is money people and businesses must pay to the government; it pays for public services everyone can use.
Who acts: Tax, people, money, everyone · What happens: be, pay, use · To what, where: money, public services
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 (Tax, people, money, 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 | Tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 money | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 money | cop |
| 3 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pay | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 businesses | cc |
| 6 | businesses | business | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 people | conj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 pay | aux |
| 8 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 money | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 government | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 government | det |
| 11 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pay | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 pays | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pays | nsubj |
| 14 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 money | parataxis |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 services | case |
| 16 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 services | amod |
| 17 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pays | obl |
| 18 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 use | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 use | aux |
| 20 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 services | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 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 | Tax | money | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay | must | people and businesses | money not said here | to the government | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | |||
| 3 | pay | present | money | for public services | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for service=Theme | ||||
| 4 | use | can | everyone | public services not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=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:5.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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