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title: A sow usually has about 8 to 12 piglets and around 14 teats, each pi… — Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes,… · tree and pragmatics
description: A sow usually has about 8 to 12 piglets and around 14 teats, each piglet goes back to its own favourite teat, and a pig has four toes on each foot but walks on the middle two. Who acts: sow, piglet, pig. A sentence of the lesson «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres» of t
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# Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres, sentence 9

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A sow usually has about 8 to 12 piglets and around 14 teats, each piglet goes back to its own favourite teat, and a pig has four toes on each foot but walks on the middle two.

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**Who acts:** sow, piglet, pig · **What happens:** have, go back, walk · **To what, where:** 8 piglets, four toes, foot, middle two

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres» 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 (sow, piglet, pig), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres.lesson:9
# text = A sow usually has about 8 to 12 piglets and around 14 teats, each piglet goes back to its own favourite teat, and a pig has four toes on each foot but walks on the middle two.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sow	sow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	piglets	piglet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	around	around	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	teats	teat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	piglet	piglet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	teat	teat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a sow | 8 piglets and 14 teats |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piglet=Patient |
| 2 | **go back** | present | each piglet |  |  |  |  | to foot's own favourite teat *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to teat=Result |
| 3 | **have** | present | a pig | four toes |  | each foot |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient |
| 4 | **walk** | present | a pig *not said here* |  |  | the middle two |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on two=Trajectory |

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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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**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): no change. **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.

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