Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like, sentence 15

A mother pig, called a sow, usually has about 8 to 14 piglets; each piglet picks its own teat and goes back to it every feed, which cuts down fights at feeding time, and piglets double their birth weight in about a week.

Who acts: mother pig, piglet, piglets · What happens: call, have, pick, go back, cut down, double · To what, where: sow, 8 piglets, own teat, feed, teat, fights · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mother pig, piglet, piglets), 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	3 pig	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pig	compound
3	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pig	punct
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 pig	acl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sow	det
7	sow	sow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
9	usually	usually	ADV	_	10 has	advmod
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 8	advmod
12	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 piglets	nummod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 14	case
14	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 8	nmod
15	piglets	piglet	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 has	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 picks	punct
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 piglet	det
18	piglet	piglet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 picks	nsubj
19	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 has	parataxis
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 teat	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 teat	amod
22	teat	teat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 picks	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 goes	cc
24	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 picks	conj
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 goes	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 goes	obl
28	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 feed	det
29	feed	feed	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 goes	obl:unmarked
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cuts	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 cuts	nsubj
32	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 picks	conj
33	down	down	ADP	_	32 cuts	compound:prt
34	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 cuts	obj
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 time	case
36	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 time	compound
37	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cuts	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 double	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 double	cc
40	piglets	piglet	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 double	nsubj
41	double	double	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 picks	conj
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 weight	nmod:poss
43	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 weight	compound
44	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 double	obj
45	in	in	ADP	_	48 week	case
46	about	about	ADV	_	48 week	advmod
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 week	det
48	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 double	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle	a mother pig not said here	a sow				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	a mother pig	8 piglets			usually property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piglet=Patient
3	pick	present	each piglet	sow's own teat				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teat=Patient
4	go back	present	each piglet not said here	every feed	teat			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to it=Result
5	cut down	present		fights		time		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fight=Product
6	double	present	piglets	piglets's birth weight		week		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent weight=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:15.

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 ×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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