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title: A pig rolls in the mud for the same reason you put on sun cream and… — Pigs: mud, snouts and brains · tree and pragmatics
description: A pig rolls in the mud for the same reason you put on sun cream and jump in a pool on a hot day: pigs can hardly sweat, so a coat of wet mud cools them down and stops their thin, pale skin from burning. Who acts: pig, you, pigs, coat. A sentence of the lesson «Pigs: mud, snouts and brains» of the bi
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# Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, sentence 1

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A pig rolls in the mud for the same reason you put on sun cream and jump in a pool on a hot day: pigs can hardly sweat, so a coat of wet mud cools them down and stops their thin, pale skin from burning.

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**Who acts:** pig, you, pigs, coat, thin pale skin · **What happens:** roll, put, jump, sweat, cool down, stop · **To what, where:** mud, same reason, sun cream, pool, pigs, thin pale skin

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pigs: mud, snouts and brains» 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 (pig, you, pigs, coat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains.lesson:1
# text = A pig rolls in the mud for the same reason you put on sun cream and jump in a pool on a hot day: pigs can hardly sweat, so a coat of wet mud cools them down and stops their thin, pale skin from burning.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rolls	roll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	jump	jump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	sweat	sweat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	cools	cool	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	down	down	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
42	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
43	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
45	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
47	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
48	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	acl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | present | a pig |  |  | the mud |  | for the same reason | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mud=Trajectory |
| 2 | **put** | present | you | the same reason *not said here* |  | sun cream |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme on cream=Destination |
| 3 | **jump** | present | you *not said here* |  |  | a pool | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Trajectory |
| 4 | **sweat** | can | pigs |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cool down** | present | a coat of wet mud | pigs *= pig* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 6 | **stop** | present | a coat of wet mud *not said here* | pigs's thin pale skin |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality skin=Eventuality |
| 7 | **burn** | gerund | pigs's thin pale skin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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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**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, R6-punct-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.

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