Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, sentence 6

A pig's snout is strong and very sensitive, used for rooting up roots and grubs, and pigs have been used to find truffles, a mushroom that grows underground.

Who acts: snout, mushroom · What happens: be, use, root up, find, grow · To what, where: roots, pigs, truffles

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 (snout, mushroom), 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	4 snout	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 pig	case
4	snout	snout	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strong	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 strong	cop
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sensitive	cc
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 sensitive	advmod
9	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 strong	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 used	punct
11	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 strong	advcl
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 rooting	mark
13	rooting	root	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 used	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 rooting	compound:prt
15	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rooting	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 grubs	cc
17	grubs	grub	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 roots	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 used	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 used	cc
20	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 used	nsubj:pass
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 used	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 used	aux:pass
23	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 strong	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 find	mark
25	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 used	advcl
26	truffles	truffle	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 find	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 mushroom	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 mushroom	det
29	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 truffles	appos
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 grows	nsubj
31	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 mushroom	acl:relcl
32	underground	underground	ADV	_	31 grows	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 strong	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a pig's snout		strong property	tree rules
2	be		a pig's snout not said here			tree rules
3	use	participle	a pig's snout not said here			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	root up	gerund	a pig's snout not said here	roots and grubs		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent root=Patient
5	use	present · perfect · passive		pigs		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	find	to-infinitive		truffles		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truffle=Topic
7	grow	present	a mushroom		underground property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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:6.

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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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