Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, sentence 10

A frightened pig squeals very loudly to call for help, and close up a squeal was reported to be about as loud as a rock concert.

Who acts: frightened pig · What happens: frighten, squeal, call, close up, report, be · To what, where: squeal · 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 (frightened pig), 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	3 pig	det
2	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pig	amod
3	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 squeals	nsubj
4	squeals	squeal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 loudly	advmod
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 squeals	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 call	mark
8	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 squeals	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 help	case
10	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 call	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 close	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 close	cc
13	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 call	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 close	compound:prt
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 squeal	det
16	squeal	squeal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 close	obj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 reported	aux:pass
18	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 squeals	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	23 loud	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 loud	cop
21	about	about	ADV	_	23 loud	advmod
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 loud	advmod
23	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 reported	xcomp
24	as	as	ADP	_	27 concert	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 concert	det
26	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 concert	compound
27	concert	concert	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 loud	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 squeals	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	frighten	participle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	squeal	present	a frightened pig		loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	to-infinitive	a frightened pig not said here		for help	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient
4	close up	infinitive	a frightened pig not said here	a squeal		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squeal=Patient
5	report	past · passive	a frightened pig not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»
6	is	to-infinitive	a frightened pig not said here		as a rock concert; about, loud property	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:10.

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 ×3, R6-punct-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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