--- title: In Madagascar, four penguins plot clever escapes, flap their flipper… — The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and ch… · tree and pragmatics description: In Madagascar, four penguins plot clever escapes, flap their flippers and fail to fly, and dream of reaching Antarctica, while the chimps Mason and Phil read the newspaper. Who acts: four penguins, chimps. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four penguins, chimps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps.lesson:0 # text = In Madagascar, four penguins plot clever escapes, flap their flippers and fail to fly, and dream of reaching Antarctica, while the chimps Mason and Phil read the newspaper. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Madagascar Madagascar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 penguins penguin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 plot plot VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 escapes escape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 flap flap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 flippers flipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 fail fail VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 dream dream VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 of of SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 reaching reach VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 advcl _ _ 22 Antarctica Antarctica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 while while SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 chimps chimp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 27 Mason Mason PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 Phil Phil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 newspaper newspaper NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **plot** | present | four penguins | clever escapes | | Madagascar | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent escape=Theme in madagascar=Destination | | 2 | **flap** | present | four penguins *not said here* | penguins's flippers | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flipper=Patient | | 3 | **fail** | present | four penguins *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **not** **fly** | to-infinitive | four penguins *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **dream** | present | four penguins *not said here* | | | | | | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **reach** | gerund | four penguins *not said here* | Antarctica | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent antarctica=Theme | | 7 | **read** | past | the chimps | the newspaper | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newspaper=Topic | 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. **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:129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps.lesson:0`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras,…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes/17/) - next →: [The penguins of Madagascar: real pengu…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps/)