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title: Pigs are omnivores, eaters of both plants and animals, that eat root… — Pigs: mud, snouts and brains · tree and pragmatics
description: Pigs are omnivores, eaters of both plants and animals, that eat roots, fruit, grain, insects and more; in many places it is banned to feed them kitchen scraps with meat, to stop diseases spreading. Who acts: Pigs, omnivores. A sentence of the lesson «Pigs: mud, snouts and brains» of the biology cour
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# Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, sentence 7

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Pigs are omnivores, eaters of both plants and animals, that eat roots, fruit, grain, insects and more; in many places it is banned to feed them kitchen scraps with meat, to stop diseases spreading.

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**Who acts:** Pigs, omnivores · **What happens:** be, eat, ban, feed, stop, spread · **To what, where:** omnivores, roots, snout, many places, kitchen scraps, pigs

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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, omnivores), 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:7
# text = Pigs are omnivores, eaters of both plants and animals, that eat roots, fruit, grain, insects and more; in many places it is banned to feed them kitchen scraps with meat, to stop diseases spreading.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	omnivores	omnivore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	eaters	eater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc:preconj	_	_
8	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
14	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:xcomp
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	iobj	_	_
33	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	scraps	scrap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:conj
40	diseases	disease	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
41	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:acl
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Pigs | omnivores and eaters of plants and animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | present | omnivores and eaters of plants and animals | roots and fruit and grain and insects |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient |
| 3 | **ban** | present · passive |  | snout |  | many places |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **feed** | to-infinitive |  | kitchen scraps | pigs *= pig* |  |  | with meat | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient scrap=Theme |
| 5 | **stop** | to-infinitive |  | diseases |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **spread** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:7`.

**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 ×2, 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/).

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