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title: Pigs are not dirty or stupid: given space, they keep their bed clean… — Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like · tree and pragmatics
description: Pigs are not dirty or stupid: given space, they keep their bed clean and use a toilet spot far away, and in one experiment pigs steered a dot on a screen with a joystick, a bit like George playing games with Daddy Pig. Who acts: Pigs, worms. A sentence of the lesson «Peppa Pig: what real pigs are li
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# Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like, sentence 2

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Pigs are not dirty or stupid: given space, they keep their bed clean and use a toilet spot far away, and in one experiment pigs steered a dot on a screen with a joystick, a bit like George playing games with Daddy Pig.

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**Who acts:** Pigs, worms · **What happens:** not be, be, give, keep, use, steer · **To what, where:** space, bed, toilet spot, dot, one experiment, bit

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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 (Pigs, worms), 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:2
# text = Pigs are not dirty or stupid: given space, they keep their bed clean and use a toilet spot far away, and in one experiment pigs steered a dot on a screen with a joystick, a bit like George playing games with Daddy Pig.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
8	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
9	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=43:punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	experiment	experiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
28	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	steered	steer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	dot	dot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	joystick	joystick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl:unmarked	_	_
41	like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
44	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	Daddy	daddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	Pig	pig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	.	.	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 | **not** **is** | present | Pigs |  |  |  |  | dirty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Pigs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | participle | worms *= worm* *not said here* | space |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | present | worms *= worm* | worms's bed |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme |
| 5 | **use** | present | worms *= worm* *not said here* | a toilet spot |  |  |  | away *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient |
| 6 | **steer** | past | pigs | a dot |  | one experiment |  | on a screen; with a joystick | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dot=Theme in experiment=Destination |
| 7 | **play** | gerund | Pigs *not said here* | a bit like George |  |  |  |  | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent game=Theme with pig=Co-Agent |

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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:2`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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