--- title: They say his rhyme back to him with the names swapped and roll round… — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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 boo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/83-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo/7/) [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/83-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo/) / 7 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:083-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo.lesson:7 # text = They say his rhyme back to him with the names swapped and roll round and round him until his eyes spin like cart-wheels. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 083-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo.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): no change 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 rhyme rhyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 back back ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 11 swapped swap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 roll roll VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 round round ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 round round ADV RB _ 14 conj _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 18 until until SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 spin spin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 cart cart NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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](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. 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