The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands, sentence 11

Pigs can learn tricks, solve puzzles and, in experiments, play simple video games with a joystick, and they find buried food with their noses.

Who acts: Pigs · What happens: learn, solve, play, find, bury · To what, where: tricks, puzzles, simple video games, experiments, buried food

This is a sentence of the lesson «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» 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	Pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 learn	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 learn	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 solve	punct
6	solve	solve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	conj
7	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 solve	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 play	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 and	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 experiments	case
11	experiments	experiment	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 play	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 experiments	punct
13	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	conj
14	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 games	amod
15	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 games	compound
16	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 play	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 joystick	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 joystick	det
19	joystick	joystick	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 play	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 find	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 find	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 find	nsubj
23	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	conj
24	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 food	amod
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 noses	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 noses	nmod:poss
28	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 find	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 learn	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	learn	can	Pigs	tricks			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic
2	solve	infinitive	Pigs not said here	puzzles			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic
3	play	infinitive	Pigs not said here	simple video games	experiments	with a joystick	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent game=Theme with joystick=Co-Agent
4	find	present	pigs = pig	buried food		with pigs's noses	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic
5	bury	participle					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:096-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands.lesson:11.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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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