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title: Real pigs love mud: they have very few working sweat glands, so wet… — Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like · tree and pragmatics
description: Real pigs love mud: they have very few working sweat glands, so wet mud cools them as it dries, and the coat of mud works as sunscreen and keeps off biting insects. Who acts: Real pigs, kinds, wet mud, mud. A sentence of the lesson «Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like» of the biology course of Mova's
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# Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like, sentence 4

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Real pigs love mud: they have very few working sweat glands, so wet mud cools them as it dries, and the coat of mud works as sunscreen and keeps off biting insects.

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**Who acts:** Real pigs, kinds, wet mud, mud, coat · **What happens:** love, have, work, cool, dry, keep off · **To what, where:** mud, few working sweat glands, kinds, biting insects

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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 (Real pigs, kinds, wet mud, mud), 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:4
# text = Real pigs love mud: they have very few working sweat glands, so wet mud cools them as it dries, and the coat of mud works as sunscreen and keeps off biting insects.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obj
10	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl
11	sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	glands	gland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	cools	cool	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	dries	dry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	sunscreen	sunscreen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=28:cc
32	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
33	off	off	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	biting	bite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	amod	_	_
35	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **love** | present | Real pigs | mud |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mud=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | present | kinds *= kind* | few working sweat glands |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gland=Patient |
| 3 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cool** | present | wet mud | kinds *= kind* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **dry** | present | mud |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **work** | present | the coat of mud |  |  |  |  | as sunscreen | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as sunscreen=Attribute |
| 7 | **keep off** | present | the coat of mud *not said here* | biting insects |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme |
| 8 | **bite** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3. **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.

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