--- title: Pigs learn tricks and solve puzzles as well as many dogs, and they c… — Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs · tree and pragmatics description: Pigs learn tricks and solve puzzles as well as many dogs, and they can use a mirror to find food hidden behind them. Who acts: Pigs, puzzles. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/) / 6 # Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, sentence 6 Pigs learn tricks and solve puzzles as well as many dogs, and they can use a mirror to find food hidden behind them. **Who acts:** Pigs, puzzles · **What happens:** learn, solve, use, find, hide · **To what, where:** tricks, puzzles, mirror, food 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 (Pigs, puzzles), 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:6 # text = Pigs learn tricks and solve puzzles as well as many dogs, and they can use a mirror to find food hidden behind them. # 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): no change 1 Pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 solve solve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 as as ADV RB ExtPos=ADV 5 advmod _ _ 8 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 fixed _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 21 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 23 behind behind ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | present | Pigs | tricks | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic | | 2 | **solve** | present | Pigs *not said here* | puzzles | | | | as many dogs | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic | | 3 | **use** | can | puzzles *= puzzle* | a mirror | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirror=Patient | | 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | puzzles *= puzzle* *not said here* | food | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic | | 5 | **hide** | participle | | food *not said here* | | | | behind puzzles *= puzzle* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind they=Location | 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. **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: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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/5/) - next →: [Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/)