Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, sentence 12

Pale pigs can get sunburnt, because their skin is thin with little hair, so mud and shade protect them, a bit like sun cream and a hat protect us.

Who acts: Pale pigs, skin, mud, sun cream · What happens: get, be, protect · To what, where: pigs, bit

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 (Pale pigs, skin, mud, sun cream), 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	Pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pigs	amod
2	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	sunburnt	sunburnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thin	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 thin	mark
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 skin	nmod:poss
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thin	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thin	cop
11	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	advcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 hair	case
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hair	amod
14	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thin	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mud	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	20 protect	advmod
17	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 protect	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 shade	cc
19	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mud	conj
20	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 protect	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bit	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bit	det
24	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 protect	obl
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 cream	case
26	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cream	compound
27	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 protect	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hat	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 hat	det
30	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cream	conj
31	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 protect	conj
32	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 protect	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	can	Pale pigs		sunburnt property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	pigs's skin		with little hair; thin property	tree rules
3	protect	infinitive	mud and shade	pigs = pig		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
4	protect	infinitive	sun cream and a hat	a bit		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary

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:12.

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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