--- title: A pig's snout ends in a flat disc with a tough edge for digging and… — Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like · tree and pragmatics description: A pig's snout ends in a flat disc with a tough edge for digging and many nerve endings for feeling and smelling; pigs were trained to sniff out truffles, though many hunters now use dogs because pigs eat them. Who acts: snout, pigs, many hunters. 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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 (snout, pigs, many hunters), 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:11 # text = A pig's snout ends in a flat disc with a tough edge for digging and many nerve endings for feeling and smelling; pigs were trained to sniff out truffles, though many hunters now use dogs because pigs eat them. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 snout snout NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 disc disc NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 15 digging dig NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 endings ending NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 20 for for SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 21 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 smelling smell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 sniff sniff VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 truffles truffle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 though though SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 34 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 36 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ _ 37 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:conj 38 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 39 because because SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 41 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 . . 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 | **end** | present | a pig's snout | | | a flat disc with a tough edge for digging and many nerve endings feeling | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **smell** | gerund | a pig's snout *not said here* | | | | | | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **train** | past · passive | | pigs | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **sniff out** | to-infinitive | pigs *not said here* | truffles | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truffle=Theme | | 5 | **use** | present | many hunters | dogs | | | now | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient | | 6 | **eat** | present | pigs | dogs *= dog* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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. 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