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title: A real pig walks on four legs, on the tips of two hoofed toes on eac… — Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like · tree and pragmatics
description: A real pig walks on four legs, on the tips of two hoofed toes on each foot, and its flat snout is a strong, sensitive digging tool for roots and worms. Who acts: real pig, flat snout. A sentence of the lesson «Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like, sentence 1

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A real pig walks on four legs, on the tips of two hoofed toes on each foot, and its flat snout is a strong, sensitive digging tool for roots and worms.

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**Who acts:** real pig, flat snout · **What happens:** walk, hoof, be · **To what, where:** four legs, strong sensitive digging tool

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like» 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 (real pig, flat snout), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:138-peppa-pig-real-pigs.lesson:1
# text = A real pig walks on four legs, on the tips of two hoofed toes on each foot, and its flat snout is a strong, sensitive digging tool for roots and worms.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 138-peppa-pig-real-pigs.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	hoofed	hoof	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	snout	snout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
26	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	digging	digging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	tool	tool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | a real pig |  |  | four legs and the tips of two hoofed toes on each foot |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hoof** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | pig's flat snout | a strong sensitive digging tool |  |  |  | for roots and worms | tree rules |

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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.

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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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