Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, sentence 0
People call a messy room a pigsty, but pigs are among the cleanest and cleverest animals on the farm.
Who acts: People, pigs · What happens: call, be, animal · To what, where: messy room, farm · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pigs: mud, snouts and brains» 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 (People, 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 call | nsubj |
| 2 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 room | det |
| 4 | messy | messy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 room | amod |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 call | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pigsty | det |
| 7 | pigsty | pigsty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 call | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 animals | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 animals | cc |
| 10 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 animals | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 cleanest | cop |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 cleanest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 animals | det |
| 14 | cleanest | clean | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 animals | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cleverest | cc |
| 16 | cleverest | clever | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 cleanest | conj |
| 17 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 call | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 farm | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 farm | det |
| 20 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 animals | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | People | a messy room | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent room=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | clean property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | animal | pigs | the farm | tree rules |
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:210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains.lesson:0.
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. 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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