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title: A mother boar usually has about 4 to 6 striped piglets whose stripes… — Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coy… · tree and pragmatics
description: A mother boar usually has about 4 to 6 striped piglets whose stripes hide them in the forest and fade after a few months, and she can charge if she thinks they are in danger. Who acts: mother boar, stripes, deer. A sentence of the lesson «Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys
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# Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards, sentence 6

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A mother boar usually has about 4 to 6 striped piglets whose stripes hide them in the forest and fade after a few months, and she can charge if she thinks they are in danger.

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**Who acts:** mother boar, stripes, deer · **What happens:** have, stripe, hide, fade, charge, think · **To what, where:** 4 striped piglets, piglets, forest, danger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards» 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 (mother boar, stripes, deer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards.lesson:6
# text = A mother boar usually has about 4 to 6 striped piglets whose stripes hide them in the forest and fade after a few months, and she can charge if she thinks they are in danger.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
10	striped	stripe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	piglets	piglet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
12	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	fade	fade	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	charge	charge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:parataxis
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	ccomp	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 mother boar | 4 striped piglets |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piglet=Patient |
| 2 | **stripe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hide** | present | stripes | piglets *= piglet* |  | the forest |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in forest=Location |
| 4 | **fade** | present | stripes *not said here* |  |  |  | month |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **charge** | can | deer |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | deer |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | present | stripes *= stripe* |  |  | danger |  |  | tree rules |

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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): R5-strong ×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.

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