Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, sentence 6
Pigs learn tricks and solve puzzles as well as many dogs, and they can use a mirror to find food hidden behind them.
Who acts: Pigs, puzzles · What happens: learn, solve, use, find, hide · To what, where: tricks, puzzles, mirror, food
This is a sentence of the lesson «Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs» 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, puzzles), 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 learn | nsubj |
| 2 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 learn | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 solve | cc |
| 5 | solve | solve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 learn | conj |
| 6 | puzzles | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 solve | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 5 solve | advmod |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 as | fixed |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 dogs | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dogs | amod |
| 11 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 solve | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 use | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 use | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 use | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 use | aux |
| 16 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 learn | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 mirror | det |
| 18 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 use | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 find | mark |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 use | advcl |
| 21 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obj |
| 22 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 food | acl |
| 23 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hidden | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present | Pigs | tricks | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic | ||||
| 2 | solve | present | Pigs not said here | puzzles | as many dogs | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic | |||
| 3 | use | can | puzzles = puzzle | a mirror | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirror=Patient | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | puzzles = puzzle not said here | food | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic | ||||
| 5 | hide | participle | food not said here | behind puzzles = puzzle | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind they=Location |
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:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs.lesson:6.
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): no change. 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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