People and society — communities, work, money and rules, sentence 16
Taxes are money people pay to pay for things everyone shares, such as roads, schools and hospitals.
Who acts: Taxes, people, everyone · What happens: be, pay, share · To what, where: money, things
This is a sentence of the lesson «People and society — communities, work, money and rules» of the world 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 (Taxes, people, 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 | Taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 money | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 money | cop |
| 3 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pay | nsubj |
| 5 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 money | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pay | mark |
| 7 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pay | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 things | case |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pay | obl |
| 10 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 shares | nsubj |
| 11 | shares | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 things | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 roads | punct |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 15 roads | case |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 such | fixed |
| 15 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 things | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 schools | punct |
| 17 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 roads | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hospitals | cc |
| 19 | hospitals | hospital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 roads | conj |
| 20 | . | . | 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 | Taxes | money | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay | present | people | money not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | ||||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | people not said here | for things such roads and schools and hospitals | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for thing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | share | present | everyone | things such roads and schools and hospitals not said here | tree rules |
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:world:058-people-and-society.lesson:16.
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): R6-punct-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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