Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, sentence 7
Pigs are omnivores, eaters of both plants and animals, that eat roots, fruit, grain, insects and more; in many places it is banned to feed them kitchen scraps with meat, to stop diseases spreading.
Who acts: Pigs, omnivores · What happens: be, eat, ban, feed, stop, spread · To what, where: omnivores, roots, snout, many places, kitchen scraps, pigs
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, omnivores), 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 | 3 omnivores | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 omnivores | cop |
| 3 | omnivores | omnivore | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eaters | punct |
| 5 | eaters | eater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 omnivores | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 plants | case |
| 7 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 8 plants | cc:preconj |
| 8 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eaters | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 animals | cc |
| 10 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 plants | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eat | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 eat | nsubj |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 omnivores | acl:relcl |
| 14 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 eat | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fruit | punct |
| 16 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 roots | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grain | punct |
| 18 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 roots | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 insects | punct |
| 20 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 roots | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 more | cc |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 eat | advmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 banned | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 places | case |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 places | amod |
| 26 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 banned | obl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 banned | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 banned | aux:pass |
| 29 | banned | ban | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 eat | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 feed | mark |
| 31 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 banned | advcl |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 feed | iobj |
| 33 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 scraps | compound |
| 34 | scraps | scrap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 feed | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 meat | case |
| 36 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 scraps | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 stop | punct |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 stop | mark |
| 39 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 feed | advcl |
| 40 | diseases | disease | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 stop | obj |
| 41 | spreading | spread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 stop | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 omnivores | 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 | is a | present | Pigs | omnivores and eaters of plants and animals | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | omnivores and eaters of plants and animals | roots and fruit and grain and insects | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ban | present · passive | snout | many places | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | feed | to-infinitive | kitchen scraps | pigs = pig | with meat | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient scrap=Theme | |||
| 5 | stop | to-infinitive | diseases | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | spread | gerund | 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:7.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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