--- title: A sow, a mother pig, can have a litter of a dozen piglets or more bo… — Pigs: mud, snouts and brains · tree and pragmatics description: A sow, a mother pig, can have a litter of a dozen piglets or more born together; each piglet picks a teat to suck milk from and keeps it, and piglets know their mother's voice. Who acts: sow, piglet, piglets. 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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 (sow, piglet, piglets), 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:9 # text = A sow, a mother pig, can have a litter of a dozen piglets or more born together; each piglet picks a teat to suck milk from and keeps it, and piglets know their mother's voice. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sow sow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 litter litter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 dozen dozen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 piglets piglet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 conj _ _ 18 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 19 together together ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 22 piglet piglet NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 picks pick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 teat teat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 suck suck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 28 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 27 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 piglets piglet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | can | a sow | a litter of a dozen piglets | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litter=Patient | | 2 | **bear** | participle | | a dozen piglets *not said here* | | | | together *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **pick** | present | each piglet | a teat | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **suck** | to-infinitive | each piglet *not said here* | milk | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent milk=Theme | | 5 | **keep** | present | each piglet *not said here* | milk | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **know** | present | piglets | pigs's mother's voice | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | 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:9`. **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/). - ← previous: [Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/8/) - next →: [Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/)