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title: Given space, pigs keep their toilet far away from where they sleep,… — Pigs: mud, snouts and brains · tree and pragmatics
description: Given space, pigs keep their toilet far away from where they sleep, and their strong, sensitive snout digs up roots and grubs like a living spade. Who acts: pigs, strong sensitive snout. A sentence of the lesson «Pigs: mud, snouts and brains» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, sentence 2

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Given space, pigs keep their toilet far away from where they sleep, and their strong, sensitive snout digs up roots and grubs like a living spade.

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**Who acts:** pigs, strong sensitive snout · **What happens:** give, keep, sleep, dig up · **To what, where:** Given space, roots

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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 (pigs, strong sensitive snout), 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:2
# text = Given space, pigs keep their toilet far away from where they sleep, and their strong, sensitive snout digs up roots and grubs like a living spade.
# 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 ×1
1	Given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl:relcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
17	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	snout	snout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	digs	dig	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	grubs	grub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
29	spade	spade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | present | pigs | Given space |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toilet=Theme |
| 3 | **sleep** | present | pigs *= pig* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dig up** | present | pigs's strong sensitive snout | roots and grubs |  |  |  | like a living spade | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent root=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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**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:2`.

**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 ×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/).

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