--- title: A pig's snout is strong and very sensitive, used for rooting up root… — Pigs: mud, snouts and brains · tree and pragmatics description: A pig's snout is strong and very sensitive, used for rooting up roots and grubs, and pigs have been used to find truffles, a mushroom that grows underground. Who acts: snout, mushroom. 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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 (snout, mushroom), 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:6 # text = A pig's snout is strong and very sensitive, used for rooting up roots and grubs, and pigs have been used to find truffles, a mushroom that grows underground. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 snout snout NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 very very ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 sensitive sensitive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 12 for for SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 13 rooting root VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obl 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 grubs grub NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 26 truffles truffle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 mushroom mushroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 underground underground ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a pig's snout | | | | | strong *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | a pig's snout *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **use** | participle | a pig's snout *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **root up** | gerund | a pig's snout *not said here* | roots and grubs | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent root=Patient | | 5 | **use** | present · perfect · passive | | pigs | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **find** | to-infinitive | | truffles | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truffle=Topic | | 7 | **grow** | present | a mushroom | | | | | underground *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:6`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/5/) - next →: [Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/)