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# Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs, sentence 14

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In one study pigs saw food in a mirror and walked round the wall to find the real food, and pigs learned to move a joystick with their snouts in a simple video game.

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**Who acts:** pigs · **What happens:** see, walk, find, learn, move · **To what, where:** one study, mirror, wall, real food, joystick, simple video game

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:14
# text = In one study pigs saw food in a mirror and walked round the wall to find the real food, and pigs learned to move a joystick with their snouts in a simple video game.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nummod
3	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound
4	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	round	round	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
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	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
36	.	.	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 | **see** | past | pigs | one study |  | a mirror |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus |
| 2 | **walk** | past | pigs *not said here* |  |  | the wall |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round wall=Trajectory |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | pigs *not said here* | the real food |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |
| 4 | **learn** | past | pigs |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **move** | to-infinitive | pigs *not said here* | a joystick |  | a simple video game |  | with Pigs's snouts | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent joystick=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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**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. **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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