--- title: A frightened pig squeals very loudly to call for help, and close up… — Pigs: mud, snouts and brains · tree and pragmatics description: A frightened pig squeals very loudly to call for help, and close up a squeal was reported to be about as loud as a rock concert. Who acts: frightened pig. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frightened pig), 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:10 # text = A frightened pig squeals very loudly to call for help, and close up a squeal was reported to be about as loud as a rock concert. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 squeals squeal VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:parataxis 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 close close VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 squeal squeal NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 19 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 as as ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 concert concert NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **frighten** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **squeal** | present | a frightened pig | | | | | loudly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | to-infinitive | a frightened pig *not said here* | | | | | for help | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient | | 4 | **close up** | infinitive | a frightened pig *not said here* | a squeal | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squeal=Patient | | 5 | **report** | past · passive | a frightened pig *not said here* | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP» | | 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | a frightened pig *not said here* | | | | | as a rock concert; about, loud *property* | tree rules | 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:210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains.lesson:10`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/9/) - next →: [Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/)