Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, sentence 9
A sow, a mother pig, can have a litter of a dozen piglets or more born together; each piglet picks a teat to suck milk from and keeps it, and piglets know their mother's voice.
Who acts: sow, piglet, piglets · What happens: have, bear, pick, suck, keep, know · To what, where: litter, dozen piglets, teat, milk, voice
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 (sow, piglet, piglets), 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 sow | det |
| 2 | sow | sow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pig | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pig | det |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pig | compound |
| 6 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sow | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sow | punct |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 litter | det |
| 11 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 piglets | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 piglets | det |
| 14 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 piglets | nummod |
| 15 | piglets | piglet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 litter | nmod |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 more | cc |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 piglets | conj |
| 18 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 piglets | acl |
| 19 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 born | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 picks | punct |
| 21 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 piglet | det |
| 22 | piglet | piglet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 picks | nsubj |
| 23 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 teat | det |
| 25 | teat | teat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 picks | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 suck | mark |
| 27 | suck | suck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 picks | xcomp |
| 28 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 suck | obj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 suck | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 keeps | cc |
| 31 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 picks | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 keeps | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 know | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 know | cc |
| 35 | piglets | piglet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 know | nsubj |
| 36 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 picks | conj |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 mother | nmod:poss |
| 38 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 voice | nmod:poss |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 mother | case |
| 40 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 know | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | can | a sow | a litter of a dozen piglets | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bear | participle | a dozen piglets not said here | together property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | pick | present | each piglet | a teat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | suck | to-infinitive | each piglet not said here | milk | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent milk=Theme | ||||
| 5 | keep | present | each piglet not said here | milk | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | know | present | piglets | pigs's mother's voice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
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:9.
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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