--- title: «pig's tail's all curly and wagging» What does that usually mean? — Pigs: mud, snouts and brains · tree and pragmatics description: «pig's tail's all curly and wagging» What does that usually mean? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 210 «Pigs: mud, snouts and brains» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [Pigs: mud, snouts and brains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★★ · Pigs: mud, snouts and brains «pig's tail's all curly and wagging» What does that usually mean? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** tail, that · **What happens:** be, wag, mean This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 210 «Pigs: mud, snouts and brains» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains:t10:1 # text = «pig's tail's all curly and wagging» What does that usually mean? 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 all all ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 curly curly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 wagging wag VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 11 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 obj _ _ 12 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 13 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 nsubj _ _ 14 usually usually ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | pig's tail | | | | | all, curly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **wag** *in a quote* | gerund | pig's tail *not said here* | | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present · do-support | that | | | | | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} The pig is angry ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains:t10:o1:1 # text = The pig is angry 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the pig | | | | | angry *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} The pig is very ill ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains:t10:o2:1 # text = The pig is very ill 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the pig | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} The pig is cold ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains:t10:o3:1 # text = The pig is cold 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the pig | | | | | cold *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} The pig is probably happy ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains:t10:o4:1 # text = The pig is probably happy 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 probably probably ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the pig | | | | | happy, probably *property* | tree rules | **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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