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title: Pigs are clean, clever animals; they cannot sweat, so they roll in m… — Allergies, horses and farm animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Pigs are clean, clever animals; they cannot sweat, so they roll in mud to cool down and protect their skin from sunburn. Who acts: Pigs. A sentence of the lesson «Allergies, horses and farm animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Allergies, horses and farm animals, sentence 21

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Pigs are clean, clever animals; they cannot sweat, so they roll in mud to cool down and protect their skin from sunburn.

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**Who acts:** Pigs · **What happens:** be, not sweat, roll, cool down, protect · **To what, where:** mud, skin

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Allergies, horses and farm animals» of the everyday 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:everyday:067-allergies-horses-and-farm-animals.lesson:21
# text = Pigs are clean, clever animals; they cannot sweat, so they roll in mud to cool down and protect their skin from sunburn.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 067-allergies-horses-and-farm-animals.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	Pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	sweat	sweat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	roll	roll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	cool	cool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	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 | **is** | present | Pigs |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **sweat** | can | Pigs *= pig* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **roll** | present | Pigs *= pig* |  |  | mud |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mud=Trajectory |
| 4 | **cool down** | to-infinitive | Pigs *= pig* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **protect** | infinitive | Pigs *= pig* *not said here* | Pigs's skin |  |  |  | from sunburn | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Beneficiary from sunburn=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:everyday:067-allergies-horses-and-farm-animals.lesson:21`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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