--- title: Many pigs are pink, but many breeds are black, spotted, ginger or ha… — Pigs: mud, snouts and brains · tree and pragmatics description: Many pigs are pink, but many breeds are black, spotted, ginger or hairy, and their wild ancestor, the wild boar, is hairy and brown. Who acts: Many pigs, many breeds, wild ancestor. 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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 (Many pigs, many breeds, wild ancestor), 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:11 # text = Many pigs are pink, but many breeds are black, spotted, ginger or hairy, and their wild ancestor, the wild boar, is hairy and brown. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 breeds breed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 spotted spot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 ginger ginger NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 hairy hairy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 ancestor ancestor NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 boar boar NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 hairy hairy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **is** | present | Many pigs | | | | | pink *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | many breeds | | | | | black *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **spot** | participle | many breeds *not said here* | ginger | | | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 4 | **is** | present | pigs's wild ancestor | | | | | hairy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | pigs's wild ancestor *not said here* | | | | | | 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:11`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/10/) - next →: [Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/)