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title: Babe's cleverness is real, though: pigs solve puzzles as well as man… — Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs · tree and pragmatics
description: Babe's cleverness is real, though: pigs solve puzzles as well as many dogs, remember well and can even use a mirror to find hidden food. Who acts: cleverness, pigs. A sentence of the lesson «Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, sentence 2

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Babe's cleverness is real, though: pigs solve puzzles as well as many dogs, remember well and can even use a mirror to find hidden food.

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**Who acts:** cleverness, pigs · **What happens:** be, solve, remember, use, find, hide · **To what, where:** puzzles, mirror, hidden food

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs» 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 (cleverness, pigs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs.lesson:2
# text = Babe's cleverness is real, though: pigs solve puzzles as well as many dogs, remember well and can even use a mirror to find hidden food.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs.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	Babe	Babe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	though	though	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:discourse
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
9	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	solve	solve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
11	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	10	advmod	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	fixed	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
28	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Babe's cleverness |  |  |  |  | real, though *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **solve** | present | pigs | puzzles |  |  |  | as many dogs | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic |
| 3 | **remember** | present | pigs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **use** | can | pigs *not said here* | a mirror |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirror=Patient |
| 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | pigs *not said here* | hidden food |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |
| 6 | **hide** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: 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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**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:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs.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, 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/).

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