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title: A driver collects Arnav from school in a black car, and kids ask, «I… — Rich families: the big house, the nanny and neve… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of the lesson «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» of the eve
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# Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad, sentence 20

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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.

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**Who acts:** driver, kids · **What happens:** collect, ask, be, walk · **To what, where:** Arnav, school, prince, parents · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.lesson:20
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	collects	collect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Arnav	Arnav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
17	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	conj	_	_
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
25	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
29	home	home	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	43	advmod	_	_
43	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **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 |

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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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**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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