Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, sentence 4
Pigs wallow in mud to keep cool, because they cannot sweat much, and the mud also protects their skin from sunburn.
Who acts: Pigs, mud · What happens: wallow, keep, not sweat, protect · To what, where: mud, 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 (Pigs, mud), 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 | Pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wallow | nsubj |
| 2 | wallow | wallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 mud | case |
| 4 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wallow | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 keep | mark |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wallow | advcl |
| 7 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 keep | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sweat | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 sweat | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sweat | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 sweat | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 sweat | advmod |
| 13 | sweat | sweat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wallow | advcl |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 sweat | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 protects | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 protects | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mud | det |
| 18 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 protects | nsubj |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 protects | advmod |
| 20 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wallow | conj |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 skin | nmod:poss |
| 22 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 protects | obj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 sunburn | case |
| 24 | sunburn | sunburn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 protects | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wallow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wallow | present | Pigs | mud | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | Pigs not said here | cool property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not sweat | can | pigs = pig | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | protect | present | the mud | pigs's skin | from sunburn | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Beneficiary from sunburn=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:4.
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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