Pets and farm animals, sentence 13
Pigs can't sweat much, so they roll in mud to cool off and protect their skin from the sun; given space, they keep their toilet area away from where they sleep.
Who acts: Pigs · What happens: not sweat, roll, cool off, protect, give, keep · To what, where: mud, skin, given space
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pets and farm animals» of the myths 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 | 4 sweat | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sweat | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 sweat | advmod |
| 4 | sweat | sweat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 sweat | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 roll | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 roll | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 roll | nsubj |
| 9 | roll | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sweat | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 mud | case |
| 11 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roll | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 cool | mark |
| 13 | cool | cool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 roll | advcl |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 cool | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 protect | cc |
| 16 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cool | conj |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 skin | nmod:poss |
| 18 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 protect | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 sun | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sun | det |
| 21 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 protect | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 space | punct |
| 23 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 space | amod |
| 24 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 keep | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 keep | punct |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 keep | nsubj |
| 27 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 roll | conj |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 area | nmod:poss |
| 29 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 area | compound |
| 30 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 keep | obj |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 keep | advmod |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 where | case |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 away | obl |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 sleep | nsubj |
| 35 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 where | advcl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sweat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sweat | can | Pigs | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | roll | present | Pigs = pig | mud | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mud=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | cool off | to-infinitive | Pigs = pig not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | protect | infinitive | Pigs = pig not said here | Pigs's skin | from the sun | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Beneficiary from sun=Theme | |||
| 5 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | keep | present | Pigs = pig | given space | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Theme | |||
| 7 | sleep | present | Pigs = pig | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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:myths:007-pets-and-farm-animals.lesson:13.
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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