Adults who help and adults who don't, sentence 4
The dinner lady always said «sort it out yourselves», so the shoving in the queue went on for weeks.
Who acts: dinner lady, shoving · What happens: say, sort out, go on · To what, where: up · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Adults who help and adults who don't» 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 (dinner lady, shoving), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 2 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lady | compound |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 sort | punct |
| 7 | sort | sort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sort | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 sort | compound:prt |
| 10 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 sort | obl |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 sort | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shoving | det |
| 15 | shoving | shove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | nsubj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 queue | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 queue | det |
| 18 | queue | queue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shoving | nmod |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | advcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 went | compound:prt |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 weeks | case |
| 22 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 went | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the dinner lady | always property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sort out in a quote | infinitive | up | yourselves obl | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go on | past | the shoving in the queue | week | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson:4.
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 ×3. 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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