Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad, sentence 20
A driver collects Arnav from school in a black car, and kids ask, «Is he a prince or what?» He'd rather walk home with his mates, and he can ask his parents if he sometimes may.
Who acts: driver, kids · What happens: collect, ask, be, walk · To what, where: Arnav, school, prince, parents · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» of the everyday 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 (driver, kids), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 driver | det |
| 2 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 collects | nsubj |
| 3 | collects | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Arnav | Arnav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 collects | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 school | case |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 collects | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 car | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 car | det |
| 9 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 car | amod |
| 10 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 collects | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ask | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ask | cc |
| 13 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ask | nsubj |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 collects | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ask | punct |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 ask | punct |
| 17 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 prince | cop |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 prince | nsubj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 prince | det |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ask | ccomp |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 what | cc |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 prince | conj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 ask | punct |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 ask | punct |
| 25 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 walk | nsubj |
| 26 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 walk | aux |
| 27 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 28 walk | advmod |
| 28 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ask | advcl |
| 29 | home | home | ADV | _ | 28 walk | advmod |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 mates | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 mates | nmod:poss |
| 32 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 walk | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 ask | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 ask | cc |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 ask | nsubj |
| 36 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 ask | aux |
| 37 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 walk | conj |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 parents | nmod:poss |
| 39 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 ask | obj |
| 40 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 43 may | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 may | nsubj |
| 42 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 43 may | advmod |
| 43 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 ask | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 collects | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | present | a driver | Arnav | school | in a black car | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent arnav=Theme from school=Source | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | kids | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | driver | a prince | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | walk | would | driver | with driver's mates; home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | can | driver | driver's parents | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
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:everyday:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.lesson:20.
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): no change. 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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