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title: Pigs can't sweat much, so they roll in mud to cool off and protect t… — Pets and farm animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Pigs can't sweat much, so they roll in mud to cool off and protect their skin from the sun; given space, they keep their toilet area away from where they sleep. Who acts: Pigs. A sentence of the lesson «Pets and farm animals» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Pets and farm animals, sentence 13

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Pigs can't sweat much, so they roll in mud to cool off and protect their skin from the sun; given space, they keep their toilet area away from where they sleep.

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**Who acts:** Pigs · **What happens:** not sweat, roll, cool off, protect, give, keep · **To what, where:** mud, skin, given space

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pets and farm animals» of the myths 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:myths:007-pets-and-farm-animals.lesson:13
# text = Pigs can't sweat much, so they roll in mud to cool off and protect their skin from the sun; given space, they keep their toilet area away from where they sleep.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 007-pets-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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	sweat	sweat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	roll	roll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	cool	cool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl:relcl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **sweat** | can | Pigs |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **roll** | present | Pigs *= pig* |  |  | mud |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mud=Trajectory |
| 3 | **cool off** | 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 |  |  |  | from the sun | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Beneficiary from sun=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **keep** | present | Pigs *= pig* | given space |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Theme |
| 7 | **sleep** | present | Pigs *= pig* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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): 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.

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