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title: ado — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «ado» in the school dictionary: Fuss, bustle or trouble. «Without ado» means at once, without delay or fuss. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# ado

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**Who acts:** ado, you, he · **What happens:** mean, not make, turn, take · **To what, where:** much ado, himself, Jack, shoulders

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«ado» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: [ado in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ado.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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Fuss, bustle or trouble. «Without ado» means at once, without delay or fuss.

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*Sentence 1:* Fuss, bustle or trouble.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ado:m1:1
# text = Fuss, bustle or trouble.
1	Fuss	fuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bustle	bustle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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*Sentence 2:* «Without ado» means at once, without delay or fuss.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ado:m1:2
# text = «Without ado» means at once, without delay or fuss.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	ado	ado	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	fuss	fuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | ado |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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Don't make much ado about nothing.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ado:x1:1
# text = Don't make much ado about nothing.
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ado	ado	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **make** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | much ado |  |  |  | about nothing | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ado=Product |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Without more ado, he turned himself into a pike.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ado:x2:1
# text = Without more ado, he turned himself into a pike.
1	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	ado	ado	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | he | himself *= he* |  |  |  | without more ado; into a pike *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into pike=Result |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Without ado, he took Jack on his shoulders.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ado:x3:1
# text = Without ado, he took Jack on his shoulders.
1	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	ado	ado	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | he | Jack |  | Jack's shoulders |  | without ado | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jack=Theme on shoulder=Destination |

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**Text:** the school dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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