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title: Pigs can learn tricks, solve puzzles and, in experiments, play simpl… — The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Pigs can learn tricks, solve puzzles and, in experiments, play simple video games with a joystick, and they find buried food with their noses. 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 school wit
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# The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands, sentence 11

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Pigs can learn tricks, solve puzzles and, in experiments, play simple video games with a joystick, and they find buried food with their noses.

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**Who acts:** Pigs · **What happens:** learn, solve, play, find, bury · **To what, where:** tricks, puzzles, simple video games, experiments, buried food

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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:11
# text = Pigs can learn tricks, solve puzzles and, in experiments, play simple video games with a joystick, and they find buried food with their noses.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	solve	solve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
7	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	experiments	experiment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
14	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	joystick	joystick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj
24	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **learn** | can | Pigs | tricks |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic |
| 2 | **solve** | infinitive | Pigs *not said here* | puzzles |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic |
| 3 | **play** | infinitive | Pigs *not said here* | simple video games |  | experiments |  | with a joystick | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent game=Theme with joystick=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **find** | present | pigs *= pig* | buried food |  |  |  | with pigs's noses | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |
| 5 | **bury** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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