Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name, sentence 7

They say his rhyme back to him with the names swapped and roll round and round him until his eyes spin like cart-wheels.

Who acts: prickles, eyes, Jaguar · What happens: say, swap, roll, spin, rhyme · To what, where: rhyme, Jaguar, names · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name» 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 (prickles, eyes, Jaguar), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 rhyme	nmod:poss
4	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	7 him	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 say	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 names	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 names	det
10	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	obl
11	swapped	swap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 names	acl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 roll	cc
13	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	conj
14	round	round	ADV	_	13 roll	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 round	cc
16	round	round	ADV	_	14 round	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 roll	obj
18	until	until	SCONJ	_	21 spin	mark
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eyes	nmod:poss
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 spin	nsubj
21	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 round	advcl
22	like	like	ADP	_	25 wheels	case
23	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wheels	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 cart	punct
25	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 spin	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	prickles = prickle	Jaguar's rhyme	Jaguar	with the names	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rhyme=Topic to he=Recipient
2	swap	participle		the names not said here			vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
3	roll	present	prickles = prickle not said here	Jaguar		round property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent
4	spin	present	Jaguar's eyes			like cart wheels	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	rhyme		Jaguar				nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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:083-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo.lesson:7.

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): no change. 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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