--- title: In an experiment pigs learned to move a joystick with their snouts t… — Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like · tree and pragmatics description: In an experiment pigs learned to move a joystick with their snouts to hit a target on a screen for a treat, and pigs can learn their names and remember where food was hidden. Who acts: pigs, kinds. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pigs, kinds), 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:10 # text = In an experiment pigs learned to move a joystick with their snouts to hit a target on a screen for a treat, and pigs can learn their names and remember where food was hidden. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 experiment experiment NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 joystick joystick NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 snouts snout NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 hit hit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 target target NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 treat treat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 32 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 35 advmod _ _ 33 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 hidden hidden VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 ccomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | past | pigs | | | a experiment | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **move** | to-infinitive | pigs *not said here* | a joystick | | | | with kinds's snouts | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent joystick=Theme | | 3 | **hit** | to-infinitive | pigs *not said here* | a target | | | | for a treat; on a screen | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent target=Instrument on screen=Patient | | 4 | **learn** | can | pigs | kinds's names | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic | | 5 | **remember** | infinitive | pigs *not said here* | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **hidden** | past · passive | | food | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **name** | | kinds *= kind* | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:138-peppa-pig-real-pigs.lesson:10`. **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/). - ← previous: [Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/7/) - next →: [Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/)