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title: It is like a dinner lady who sees you take chips once and from then… — Algorithms, bubbles and false balance · tree and pragmatics
description: It is like a dinner lady who sees you take chips once and from then on piles only chips on your plate: she is not reading your mind, she is counting what you took, and soon you forget other food exists. Who acts: feed, dinner lady, you, she. A sentence of the lesson «Algorithms, bubbles and false ba
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# Algorithms, bubbles and false balance, sentence 1

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It is like a dinner lady who sees you take chips once and from then on piles only chips on your plate: she is not reading your mind, she is counting what you took, and soon you forget other food exists.

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**Who acts:** feed, dinner lady, you, she, other food, your · **What happens:** be, see, take, pile, not read, count · **To what, where:** chips, plate, mind, dinner lady · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Algorithms, bubbles and false balance» of the politics 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 (feed, dinner lady, you, she), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:034-algorithms-bubbles-and-false-balance.lesson:1
# text = It is like a dinner lady who sees you take chips once and from then on piles only chips on your plate: she is not reading your mind, she is counting what you took, and soon you forget other food exists.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 034-algorithms-bubbles-and-false-balance.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 ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
11	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	piles	pile	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
34	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	33	obj	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	_
40	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	forget	forget	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
42	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	ccomp	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | present | feed |  |  |  |  | like a dinner lady | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | present | a dinner lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take** | present | you | chips |  |  |  | once *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chip=Theme |
| 4 | **pile** | present | a dinner lady *not said here* | chips |  | your plate |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chip=Theme on plate=Destination |
| 5 | **not** **read** | present · progressive | she | your mind |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Topic |
| 6 | **count** | present · progressive | she | a dinner lady |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 7 | **take** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **forget** | present | you |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **exist** | present | other food |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **mind** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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