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title: Pigs are not used for herding, but they are clever and can be traine… — Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs · tree and pragmatics
description: Pigs are not used for herding, but they are clever and can be trained with rewards to fetch, sit and come when called. Who acts: sheep. A sentence of the lesson «Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, sentence 5

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Pigs are not used for herding, but they are clever and can be trained with rewards to fetch, sit and come when called.

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**Who acts:** sheep · **What happens:** not use, be, train, fetch, sit, come · **To what, where:** Pigs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (sheep), 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:5
# text = Pigs are not used for herding, but they are clever and can be trained with rewards to fetch, sit and come when called.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	herding	herding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	rewards	reward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
25	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
26	.	.	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** **use** | present · passive |  | Pigs |  |  |  | for herding | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for herding=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | sheep |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **train** | can · passive | sheep *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with rewards | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | sheep *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sit** | infinitive | sheep *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **come** | infinitive | sheep *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **call** | participle | sheep *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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:5`.

**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): 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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