Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, sentence 1

A pig rolls in the mud for the same reason you put on sun cream and jump in a pool on a hot day: pigs can hardly sweat, so a coat of wet mud cools them down and stops their thin, pale skin from burning.

Who acts: pig, you, pigs, coat, thin pale skin · What happens: roll, put, jump, sweat, cool down, stop · To what, where: mud, same reason, sun cream, pool, pigs, thin pale skin

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 (pig, you, pigs, coat), 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	2 pig	det
2	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rolls	nsubj
3	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 sweat	parataxis
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 mud	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mud	det
6	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rolls	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 reason	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 reason	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 reason	amod
10	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rolls	obl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 put	nsubj
12	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 reason	acl:relcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 cream	case
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cream	compound
15	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 jump	cc
17	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 put	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 pool	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pool	det
20	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 jump	obl
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 day	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 day	det
23	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 day	amod
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 jump	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 sweat	punct
26	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sweat	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 sweat	aux
28	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	29 sweat	advmod
29	sweat	sweat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 cools	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	37 cools	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 coat	det
33	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cools	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 mud	case
35	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 mud	amod
36	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 coat	nmod
37	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 sweat	parataxis
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 cools	obj
39	down	down	ADP	_	37 cools	compound:prt
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 stops	cc
41	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 cools	conj
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 skin	nmod:poss
43	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 skin	amod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 thin	punct
45	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 skin	amod
46	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 stops	obj
47	from	from	SCONJ	_	48 burning	mark
48	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 skin	acl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rolls	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	present	a pig		the mud		for the same reason	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mud=Trajectory
2	put	present	you	the same reason not said here	sun cream			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme on cream=Destination
3	jump	present	you not said here		a pool	day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Trajectory
4	sweat	can	pigs				hardly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cool down	present	a coat of wet mud	pigs = pig				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	stop	present	a coat of wet mud not said here	pigs's thin pale skin				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality skin=Eventuality
7	burn	gerund	pigs's thin pale skin not said here					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:1.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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