--- title: Pigs are among the most intelligent farm animals: they solve puzzles… — Pigs: mud, snouts and brains · tree and pragmatics description: Pigs are among the most intelligent farm animals: they solve puzzles, learn names, and in a study reported in 2021 pigs used a joystick with their snouts to play a simple computer game. Who acts: 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 (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:8 # text = Pigs are among the most intelligent farm animals: they solve puzzles, learn names, and in a study reported in 2021 pigs used a joystick with their snouts to play a simple computer game. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 3 among among ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 6 advmod _ _ 6 intelligent intelligent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 solve solve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 12 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 14 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 15 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 21 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 2021 2021 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 obl _ _ 24 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 joystick joystick NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 snouts snout NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14: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 | Pigs | | | | | among the intelligent farm animals | tree rules | | 2 | **solve** | present | pigs *= pig* | puzzles | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic | | 3 | **learn** | present | pigs *= pig* *not said here* | names | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic | | 4 | **report** | participle | | a study *not said here* | | 2021 | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **use** | past | pigs | a joystick | | a study | | with pigs's snouts | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joystick=Patient | | 6 | **play** | to-infinitive | pigs *not said here* | a simple computer game | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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. 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