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description: Pigs have very few sweat glands, so they roll in mud to cool down and protect their skin, and given space they keep a separate spot for their toilet. Who acts: Pigs. A sentence of the lesson «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» of the biology course of Mova's primary sch
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# The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands, sentence 10

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Pigs have very few sweat glands, so they roll in mud to cool down and protect their skin, and given space they keep a separate spot for their toilet.

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**Who acts:** Pigs · **What happens:** have, roll, cool down, protect, give, keep · **To what, where:** few sweat glands, mud, skin, space, separate spot

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» 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:096-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands.lesson:10
# text = Pigs have very few sweat glands, so they roll in mud to cool down and protect their skin, and given space they keep a separate spot for their toilet.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 096-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands.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	Pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	glands	gland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	roll	roll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	cool	cool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
23	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	separate	separate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Pigs | few sweat glands |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gland=Patient |
| 2 | **roll** | present | pigs *= pig* |  |  | mud |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mud=Trajectory |
| 3 | **cool down** | to-infinitive | pigs *= pig* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **protect** | infinitive | pigs *= pig* *not said here* | pigs's skin |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **give** | participle | pigs *= pig* *not said here* | space |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme |
| 6 | **keep** | present | pigs *= pig* | a separate spot |  |  |  | for pigs's toilet | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=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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**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:096-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands.lesson:10`.

**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/).

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