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title: Pale pigs can get sunburnt, because their skin is thin with little h… — Pigs: mud, snouts and brains · tree and pragmatics
description: Pale pigs can get sunburnt, because their skin is thin with little hair, so mud and shade protect them, a bit like sun cream and a hat protect us. Who acts: Pale pigs, skin, mud, sun cream. A sentence of the lesson «Pigs: mud, snouts and brains» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, sentence 12

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Pale pigs can get sunburnt, because their skin is thin with little hair, so mud and shade protect them, a bit like sun cream and a hat protect us.

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**Who acts:** Pale pigs, skin, mud, sun cream · **What happens:** get, be, protect · **To what, where:** pigs, bit

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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 (Pale pigs, skin, mud, sun cream), 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:12
# text = Pale pigs can get sunburnt, because their skin is thin with little hair, so mud and shade protect them, a bit like sun cream and a hat protect us.
# 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): no change
1	Pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	sunburnt	sunburnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
32	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | can | Pale pigs |  |  |  |  | sunburnt *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | pigs's skin |  |  |  |  | with little hair; thin *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **protect** | infinitive | mud and shade | pigs *= pig* |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **protect** | infinitive | sun cream and a hat | a bit |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary |

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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): 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/).

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