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title: In many countries it is against the law to feed pigs kitchen leftove… — Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like · tree and pragmatics
description: In many countries it is against the law to feed pigs kitchen leftovers, because meat scraps can spread serious pig diseases. Who acts: meat scraps. A sentence of the lesson «Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like, sentence 13

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In many countries it is against the law to feed pigs kitchen leftovers, because meat scraps can spread serious pig diseases.

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**Who acts:** meat scraps · **What happens:** be, feed, spread · **To what, where:** many countries, kitchen leftovers, pigs, serious pig diseases

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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 (meat scraps), 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:13
# text = In many countries it is against the law to feed pigs kitchen leftovers, because meat scraps can spread serious pig diseases.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	expl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:acl
11	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	iobj	_	_
12	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	leftovers	leftover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	scraps	scrap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
20	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	diseases	disease	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is** | present |  |  |  | many countries |  | against the law | tree rules |
| 2 | **feed** | to-infinitive |  | kitchen leftovers | pigs |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent pig=Recipient leftover=Theme |
| 3 | **spread** | can | meat scraps | serious pig diseases |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location disease=Theme |

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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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**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: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.

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

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