Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like, sentence 7

Pigs walk on four legs, on the tips of two hoofed toes on each foot, with two smaller toes higher up that touch the ground only in soft mud and stop the pig sinking.

Who acts: Pigs, two smaller toes · What happens: walk, hoof, touch, stop, sink · To what, where: four legs, ground, soft mud, pig

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 (Pigs, two smaller toes), 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	Pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walk	nsubj
2	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 legs	case
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 legs	nummod
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walk	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tips	punct
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 tips	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tips	det
9	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walk	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 toes	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 toes	nummod
12	hoofed	hoof	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 toes	amod
13	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tips	nmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 foot	case
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 foot	det
16	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 toes	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 toes	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 toes	case
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 toes	nummod
20	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 toes	amod
21	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walk	obl
22	higher	high	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 toes	advmod
23	up	up	ADV	_	22 higher	advmod
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 touch	nsubj
25	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 toes	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ground	det
27	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 touch	obj
28	only	only	ADV	_	31 mud	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 mud	case
30	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 mud	amod
31	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 touch	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 stop	cc
33	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 touch	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 pig	det
35	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stop	obj
36	sinking	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 stop	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	present	Pigs		four legs	on the tips of two hoofed toes on each foot; with two smaller toes	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory
2	hoof	participle					tree rules
3	touch	present	two smaller toes	the ground	soft mud		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme
4	stop	present	two smaller toes not said here	the pig			tree rules
5	sink	gerund	two smaller toes not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:7.

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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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