Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like, sentence 14
The saying that a pig can never look up is not true; its short, thick, muscly neck just makes it awkward, and pigs see fewer colours than we do and rely more on smell.
Who acts: pig, saying, short thick muscly neck, pigs, we · What happens: not look up, not be, make, see, do, rely · To what, where: saying, fewer colours
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 (pig, saying, short thick muscly neck, pigs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 saying | det |
| 2 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 true | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pig | det |
| 5 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 look | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 look | advmod |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 saying | acl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 look | compound:prt |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 true | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 true | advmod |
| 12 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 short | punct |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 neck | nmod:poss |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 neck | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thick | punct |
| 17 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 neck | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 neck | punct |
| 19 | muscly | muscly | ADJ | _ | 20 neck | amod |
| 20 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 makes | nsubj |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 makes | advmod |
| 22 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 true | parataxis |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 makes | obj |
| 24 | awkward | awkward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 makes | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 see | cc |
| 27 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 see | nsubj |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 makes | conj |
| 29 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 colours | amod |
| 30 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 see | obj |
| 31 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 33 do | mark |
| 32 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 do | nsubj |
| 33 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 colours | acl:relcl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 rely | cc |
| 35 | rely | rely | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 see | conj |
| 36 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 35 rely | advmod |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 smell | case |
| 38 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rely | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 true | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look up | can | a pig | the saying not said here | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme saying=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | the saying | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | present | saying's short thick muscly neck | saying | awkward property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 4 | see | present | pigs | fewer colours | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | do | present | we | fewer colours not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | rely | present | pigs not said here | on smell | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on smell=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, 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:14.
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, R8-pos-agree ×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.
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