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title: tweedle — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «tweedle» in the school dictionary: To play a tune lightly on a pipe or whistle, making a trilling sound. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# tweedle

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**Who acts:** he, man, his, fiddler · **What happens:** play, make, trill, see, tweedle, whistle · **To what, where:** tune, pipe, trilling sound, man, bagpipes, little tune

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«tweedle» 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: [tweedle in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tweedle.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To play a tune lightly on a pipe or whistle, making a trilling sound.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tweedle:m1:1
# text = To play a tune lightly on a pipe or whistle, making a trilling sound.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	trilling	trill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | to-infinitive |  | a tune |  | a pipe or whistle |  | lightly *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | gerund |  | a trilling sound |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |
| 3 | **trill** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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By-and-by he saw a man playing the bagpipes.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tweedle:x1:1
# text = By-and-by he saw a man playing the bagpipes.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bagpipes	bagpipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | he | a man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | a man *not said here* | the bagpipes |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bagpipe=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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He tweedled a little tune on his whistle.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tweedle:x2:1
# text = He tweedled a little tune on his whistle.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tweedled	tweedle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tweedle** | past | He | a little tune |  | his whistle |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **whistle** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The fiddler tweedled merrily all evening.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tweedle:x3:1
# text = The fiddler tweedled merrily all evening.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tweedled	tweedle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tweedle** | past | the fiddler |  |  |  | evening | merrily *property* | tree rules |

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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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