Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres, sentence 9

A sow usually has about 8 to 12 piglets and around 14 teats, each piglet goes back to its own favourite teat, and a pig has four toes on each foot but walks on the middle two.

Who acts: sow, piglet, pig · What happens: have, go back, walk · To what, where: 8 piglets, four toes, foot, middle two

This is a sentence of the lesson «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres» 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, pig), 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	4 has	nsubj
3	usually	usually	ADV	_	4 has	advmod
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 8	advmod
6	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 piglets	nummod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 12	case
8	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 8	nmod
9	piglets	piglet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 teats	cc
11	around	around	ADV	_	12 14	advmod
12	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 teats	nummod
13	teats	teat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 piglets	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 goes	punct
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 piglet	det
16	piglet	piglet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 goes	nsubj
17	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 goes	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	23 teat	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 teat	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 teat	amod
22	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 teat	amod
23	teat	teat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 goes	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 has	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 has	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 pig	det
27	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 has	nsubj
28	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
29	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 toes	nummod
30	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 has	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 foot	case
32	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	33 foot	det
33	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 toes	nmod
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 walks	cc
35	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 has	conj
36	on	on	ADP	_	39 two	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 two	det
38	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 two	amod
39	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 walks	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	a sow	8 piglets and 14 teats		usually property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piglet=Patient
2	go back	present	each piglet			to foot's own favourite teat result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to teat=Result
3	have	present	a pig	four toes	each foot		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient
4	walk	present	a pig not said here		the middle two		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on two=Trajectory

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:350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres.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): no change. 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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