--- title: The dinner lady always said «sort it out yourselves», so the shoving… — Adults who help and adults who don't · tree and pragmatics description: The dinner lady always said «sort it out yourselves», so the shoving in the queue went on for weeks. Who acts: dinner lady, shoving. A sentence of the lesson «Adults who help and adults who don't» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Adults who help and adults who don't](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/) / 4 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson:4 # text = The dinner lady always said «sort it out yourselves», so the shoving in the queue went on for weeks. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.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 ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 always always ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 sort sort VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 out out ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 10 yourselves yourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 shoving shove NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 queue queue NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 20 on on ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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](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: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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Adults who help and adults who don't, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/3/) - next →: [Adults who help and adults who don't, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/)