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title: un cochon d'Inde is a guinea pig, word for word "a pig from India";… — Pets and animals · tree and pragmatics
description: un cochon d'Inde is a guinea pig, word for word "a pig from India"; funnily, guinea pigs are not pigs at all, and they come from South America, not from India or from Guinea. Who acts: cochon, guinea pigs, tortue. A sentence of the lesson «Pets and animals» of the french course of Mova's primary sch
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# Pets and animals, sentence 15

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un cochon d'Inde is a guinea pig, word for word "a pig from India"; funnily, guinea pigs are not pigs at all, and they come from South America, not from India or from Guinea.

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**Who acts:** cochon, guinea pigs, tortue · **What happens:** be, not be, come · **To what, where:** guinea pig, pigs, all, South America

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pets and animals» of the french 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 (cochon, guinea pigs, tortue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:015-pets-and-animals.lesson:15
# text = un cochon d'Inde is a guinea pig, word for word "a pig from India"; funnily, guinea pigs are not pigs at all, and they come from South America, not from India or from Guinea.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 015-pets-and-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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	un	un	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cochon	cochon	NOUN	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	nsubj	_	_
3	d'Inde	d'Inde	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
19	funnily	funnily	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | un cochon | a guinea pig |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | guinea pigs | pigs |  | all |  | funnily *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | present | tortue |  |  | South America and India or Guinea |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from america=Initial\_Location |

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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:french:015-pets-and-animals.lesson:15`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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