Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like, sentence 4
Real pigs love mud: they have very few working sweat glands, so wet mud cools them as it dries, and the coat of mud works as sunscreen and keeps off biting insects.
Who acts: Real pigs, kinds, wet mud, mud, coat · What happens: love, have, work, cool, dry, keep off · To what, where: mud, few working sweat glands, kinds, biting insects
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 (Real pigs, kinds, wet mud, mud), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pigs | amod |
| 2 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 love | nsubj |
| 3 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 love | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 love | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 love | parataxis |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 few | advmod |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 glands | amod |
| 10 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 glands | amod |
| 11 | sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glands | compound |
| 12 | glands | gland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cools | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 cools | advmod |
| 15 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mud | amod |
| 16 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cools | nsubj |
| 17 | cools | cool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cools | obj |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 dries | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 dries | nsubj |
| 21 | dries | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 cools | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cools | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 works | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 coat | det |
| 25 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 works | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 mud | case |
| 27 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 coat | nmod |
| 28 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 cools | conj |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 sunscreen | case |
| 30 | sunscreen | sunscreen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 works | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 keeps | cc |
| 32 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 works | conj |
| 33 | off | off | ADP | _ | 32 keeps | compound:prt |
| 34 | biting | bite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 insects | amod |
| 35 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 keeps | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 love | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | Real pigs | mud | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mud=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | present | kinds = kind | few working sweat glands | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gland=Patient | ||||
| 3 | work | gerund | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | cool | present | wet mud | kinds = kind | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | dry | present | mud | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | work | present | the coat of mud | as sunscreen | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as sunscreen=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | keep off | present | the coat of mud not said here | biting insects | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme | ||||
| 8 | bite | gerund | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=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, 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: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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3. 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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