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title: Pigs walk on four legs, on the tips of two hoofed toes on each foot,… — Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like · tree and pragmatics
description: Pigs walk on four legs, on the tips of two hoofed toes on each foot, with two smaller toes higher up that touch the ground only in soft mud and stop the pig sinking. Who acts: Pigs, two smaller toes. A sentence of the lesson «Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like» of the biology course of Mova's primar
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# Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like, sentence 7

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Pigs walk on four legs, on the tips of two hoofed toes on each foot, with two smaller toes higher up that touch the ground only in soft mud and stop the pig sinking.

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**Who acts:** Pigs, two smaller toes · **What happens:** walk, hoof, touch, stop, sink · **To what, where:** four legs, ground, soft mud, pig

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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, two smaller toes), 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:7
# text = Pigs walk on four legs, on the tips of two hoofed toes on each foot, with two smaller toes higher up that touch the ground only in soft mud and stop the pig sinking.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	hoofed	hoof	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
22	higher	high	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
23	up	up	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	sinking	sink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	xcomp	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **walk** | present | Pigs |  |  | four legs |  | on the tips of two hoofed toes on each foot; with two smaller toes | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hoof** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **touch** | present | two smaller toes | the ground |  | soft mud |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **stop** | present | two smaller toes *not said here* | the pig |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sink** | gerund | two smaller toes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:7`.

**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 ×2, 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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