Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs, sentence 14
In one study pigs saw food in a mirror and walked round the wall to find the real food, and pigs learned to move a joystick with their snouts in a simple video game.
Who acts: pigs · What happens: see, walk, find, learn, move · To what, where: one study, mirror, wall, real food, joystick, simple video game
This is a sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 pigs | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 study | nummod |
| 3 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 4 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mirror | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mirror | det |
| 9 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 walked | cc |
| 11 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 12 | round | round | ADP | _ | 14 wall | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wall | det |
| 14 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walked | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 walked | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 food | det |
| 18 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 food | amod |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 learned | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 learned | cc |
| 22 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 learned | nsubj |
| 23 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 move | mark |
| 25 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 learned | xcomp |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 joystick | det |
| 27 | joystick | joystick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 move | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 snouts | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 snouts | nmod:poss |
| 30 | snouts | snout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 move | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 game | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 game | det |
| 33 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 game | amod |
| 34 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 game | compound |
| 35 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 move | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | pigs | one study | a mirror | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | walk | past | pigs not said here | the wall | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round wall=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | pigs not said here | the real food | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic | ||||
| 4 | learn | past | pigs | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | move | to-infinitive | pigs not said here | a joystick | a simple video game | with Pigs's snouts | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent joystick=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:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:14.
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. 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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