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title: In Kent, Ollie-James asks, «Are we rich?» Dad says, «We're lucky. — Comfortable families: enough, but not everything · tree and pragmatics
description: In Kent, Ollie-James asks, «Are we rich?» Dad says, «We're lucky. Who acts: Ollie, we, Dad. A sentence of the lesson «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Comfortable families: enough, but not everything, sentence 23

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In Kent, Ollie-James asks, «Are we rich?» Dad says, «We're lucky.

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**Who acts:** Ollie, we, Dad · **What happens:** ask, be, say · **To what, where:** Kent · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» 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 (Ollie, we, Dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.lesson:23
# text = In Kent, Ollie-James asks, «Are we rich?» Dad says, «We're lucky.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Kent	Kent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
6	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
7	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
10	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
19	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Ollie |  |  | Kent |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | We |  |  |  |  | lucky *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.lesson:23`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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