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title: Emperor penguin fathers keep the egg warm on their feet for about tw… — The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and ch… · tree and pragmatics
description: Emperor penguin fathers keep the egg warm on their feet for about two months without eating. Who acts: penguin fathers. A sentence of the lesson «The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps, sentence 13

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Emperor penguin fathers keep the egg warm on their feet for about two months without eating.

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**Who acts:** penguin fathers · **What happens:** keep, eat · **To what, where:** egg, feet

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps» 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 (penguin fathers), 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:13
# text = Emperor penguin fathers keep the egg warm on their feet for about two months without eating.
# 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): no change
1	Emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	penguin	penguin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **keep** | present | penguin fathers | the egg |  | fathers's feet | month | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on foot=Location |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | penguin fathers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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**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:13`.

**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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