Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, sentence 2

Given space, pigs keep their toilet far away from where they sleep, and their strong, sensitive snout digs up roots and grubs like a living spade.

Who acts: pigs, strong sensitive snout · What happens: give, keep, sleep, dig up · To what, where: Given space, roots

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 (pigs, strong sensitive snout), 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	Given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 space	amod
2	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 space	punct
4	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 toilet	nmod:poss
7	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	5 keep	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 where	case
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 away	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sleep	nsubj
13	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 where	advcl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 digs	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 digs	cc
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 snout	nmod:poss
17	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 snout	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 strong	punct
19	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 snout	amod
20	snout	snout	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 digs	nsubj
21	digs	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 digs	compound:prt
23	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 digs	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 grubs	cc
25	grubs	grub	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 roots	conj
26	like	like	ADP	_	29 spade	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 spade	det
28	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spade	compound
29	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 roots	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	participle				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	keep	present	pigs	Given space	away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toilet=Theme
3	sleep	present	pigs = pig			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dig up	present	pigs's strong sensitive snout	roots and grubs	like a living spade	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent root=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:2.

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): R7-rel-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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