Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 4

The two friends tease him by saying his Mother's advice back to him all jumbled up, until his head spins.

Who acts: two friends, head · What happens: tease, say, jumble up, spin · To what, where: Jaguar, advice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice» of the books 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 (two friends, head), 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 friends	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 friends	nummod
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tease	nsubj
4	tease	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tease	obj
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 saying	mark
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tease	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 Mother	nmod:poss
9	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 advice	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Mother	case
11	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saying	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	7 saying	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 back	obl
15	all	all	ADV	_	16 jumbled	advmod
16	jumbled	jumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saying	ccomp
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 jumbled	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spins	punct
19	until	until	SCONJ	_	22 spins	mark
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spins	nsubj
22	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 saying	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tease	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tease	present	the two friends	Jaguar		vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the two friends not said here	Jaguar's Mother's advice		tree rules
3	jumble up	past			all property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	spin	present	Jaguar's head			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:books:082-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar.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): R5-strong ×2. 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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