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title: Pigs can be pink, black, ginger, spotted, belted or hairy, like the… — Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like · tree and pragmatics
description: Pigs can be pink, black, ginger, spotted, belted or hairy, like the curly-coated Mangalica, while wild boar are brown or grey and their piglets have pale stripes that fade as they grow. Who acts: Pigs, coated Mangalica, piglets, pale stripes. A sentence of the lesson «Peppa Pig: what real pigs are l
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# Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like, sentence 6

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Pigs can be pink, black, ginger, spotted, belted or hairy, like the curly-coated Mangalica, while wild boar are brown or grey and their piglets have pale stripes that fade as they grow.

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**Who acts:** Pigs, coated Mangalica, piglets, pale stripes, kinds · **What happens:** be, spot, coat, have, fade, grow · **To what, where:** pale stripes

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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, coated Mangalica, piglets, pale stripes), 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:6
# text = Pigs can be pink, black, ginger, spotted, belted or hairy, like the curly-coated Mangalica, while wild boar are brown or grey and their piglets have pale stripes that fade as they grow.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
6	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
8	ginger	ginger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	spotted	spot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	belted	belt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hairy	hairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	curly	curly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	coated	coat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	Mangalica	Mangalica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	piglets	piglet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
34	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	fade	fade	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
38	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
41	.	.	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 | **is** | can | Pigs |  |  |  |  | pink *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Pigs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spot** | participle | Pigs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 4 | **coat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | the coated Mangalica |  |  |  |  | brown *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | the coated Mangalica *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | present | kinds's piglets | pale stripes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripe=Patient |
| 8 | **fade** | present | pale stripes |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **grow** | present | kinds *= kind* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:6`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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