--- title: A mother pig, called a sow, usually has about 8 to 14 piglets; each… — Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like · tree and pragmatics description: A mother pig, called a sow, usually has about 8 to 14 piglets; each piglet picks its own teat and goes back to it every feed, which cuts down fights at feeding time, and piglets double their birth weight in about a week. Who acts: mother pig, piglet, piglets. 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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 (mother pig, piglet, piglets), 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:15 # text = A mother pig, called a sow, usually has about 8 to 14 piglets; each piglet picks its own teat and goes back to it every feed, which cuts down fights at feeding time, and piglets double their birth weight in about a week. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 acl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sow sow NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 usually usually ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nmod _ _ 15 piglets piglet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 piglet piglet NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 picks pick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 teat teat NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 25 back back ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 28 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 29 det _ _ 29 feed feed NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 cuts cut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 33 down down ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 fights fight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 feeding feeding NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 piglets piglet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 41 double double VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 42 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 43 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 about about ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | a mother pig *not said here* | a sow | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | present | a mother pig | 8 piglets | | | | usually *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piglet=Patient | | 3 | **pick** | present | each piglet | sow's own teat | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teat=Patient | | 4 | **go back** | present | each piglet *not said here* | every feed | teat | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to it=Result | | 5 | **cut down** | present | | fights | | | time | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fight=Product | | 6 | **double** | present | piglets | piglets's birth weight | | | week | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent weight=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:138-peppa-pig-real-pigs.lesson:15`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/14/) - next →: [Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/)