Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like, sentence 11
A pig's snout ends in a flat disc with a tough edge for digging and many nerve endings for feeling and smelling; pigs were trained to sniff out truffles, though many hunters now use dogs because pigs eat them.
Who acts: snout, pigs, many hunters · What happens: end, smell, train, sniff out, use, eat · To what, where: flat disc, pigs, truffles, dogs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like» of the biology 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 (snout, pigs, many hunters), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pig | det |
| 2 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 snout | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 pig | case |
| 4 | snout | snout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ends | nsubj |
| 5 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 disc | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 disc | det |
| 8 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 disc | amod |
| 9 | disc | disc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ends | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 edge | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 edge | det |
| 12 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 edge | amod |
| 13 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 disc | nmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 digging | case |
| 15 | digging | dig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 edge | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 endings | cc |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 endings | amod |
| 18 | nerve | nerve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 endings | compound |
| 19 | endings | ending | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 digging | conj |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 feeling | mark |
| 21 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 endings | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 smelling | cc |
| 23 | smelling | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 feeling | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 trained | punct |
| 25 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 trained | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 trained | aux:pass |
| 27 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ends | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 sniff | mark |
| 29 | sniff | sniff | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 trained | xcomp |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 sniff | compound:prt |
| 31 | truffles | truffle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 sniff | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 use | punct |
| 33 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 37 use | mark |
| 34 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 hunters | amod |
| 35 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 use | nsubj |
| 36 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 use | advmod |
| 37 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 trained | advcl |
| 38 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 use | obj |
| 39 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 41 eat | mark |
| 40 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 eat | nsubj |
| 41 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 use | advcl |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 eat | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ends | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | a pig's snout | a flat disc with a tough edge for digging and many nerve endings feeling | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | smell | gerund | a pig's snout not said here | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | train | past · passive | pigs | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | sniff out | to-infinitive | pigs not said here | truffles | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truffle=Theme | ||||
| 5 | use | present | many hunters | dogs | now | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient | |||
| 6 | eat | present | pigs | dogs = dog | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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:biology:138-peppa-pig-real-pigs.lesson:11.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5. 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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