Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools, sentence 6
In most US states, sales tax is added at the till rather than shown on the label; it pays for things like roads, police and schools.
Who acts: money · What happens: add, show, pay · To what, where: sales tax, most US states, label
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 (money), 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 | _ | 4 states | case |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 states | amod |
| 3 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 states | compound |
| 4 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 added | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 added | punct |
| 6 | sales | sale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tax | compound |
| 7 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 added | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 added | aux:pass |
| 9 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 till | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 till | det |
| 12 | till | till | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 added | obl |
| 13 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 15 shown | cc |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 rather | fixed |
| 15 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 added | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 label | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 label | det |
| 18 | label | label | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shown | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 pays | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pays | nsubj |
| 21 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 added | parataxis |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 things | case |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pays | obl |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 roads | case |
| 25 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 things | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 police | punct |
| 27 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 roads | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 schools | cc |
| 29 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 things | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 added | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present · passive | sales tax | most US states | at the till | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | show | participle | the label | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pay | present | money | for things like roads and police and schools | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for thing=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:6.
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 ×2, R7-rel-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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