--- title: The two friends tease him by saying his Mother's advice back to him… — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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 scho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar/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/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Just So Stories, The Beginning of the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar/) / 4 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:082-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar.lesson:4 # text = The two friends tease him by saying his Mother's advice back to him all jumbled up, until his head spins. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 082-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar.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): R5-strong ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tease tease VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 by by SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 Mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 12 back back ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl 15 all all ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 jumbled jumble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 until until SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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](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: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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, The Beginning of the…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar/3/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Beginning of the…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar/)