--- title: A pig often curls and wags its tail when happy, while a tail hanging… — Pigs: mud, snouts and brains · tree and pragmatics description: A pig often curls and wags its tail when happy, while a tail hanging straight down can mean it is unwell or stressed; pigs use more than twenty different grunts and squeals. Who acts: pig, tail, pigs. 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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 (pig, tail, pigs), 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:14 # text = A pig often curls and wags its tail when happy, while a tail hanging straight down can mean it is unwell or stressed; pigs use more than twenty different grunts and squeals. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 curls curl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 wags wag VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 10 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 12 while while SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 15 hanging hang VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 straight straight ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 down down ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 unwell unwell ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 ccomp _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 stressed stress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 28 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 30 advmod _ _ 29 than than ADP IN _ 28 fixed _ _ 30 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 31 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 grunts grunt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 squeals squeal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **curl** | present | a pig | | | | | often *property* | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **wag** | present | a pig *not said here* | bit's tail | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | | 3 | **hang** | gerund | a tail *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | can | a tail | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | tail | | | | | unwell *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **stress** | participle | tail *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **use** | present | pigs | twenty different grunts and squeals | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grunt=Patient | 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. 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