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title: Real penguins do not plan schemes, but they are social and curious a… — The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and ch… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real penguins do not plan schemes, but they are social and curious and learn routes and routines; Adelie penguins steal nest stones from each other. Who acts: Real penguins, penguins, Adelie penguins. A sentence of the lesson «The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps» of the biology cour
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# The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps, sentence 14

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Real penguins do not plan schemes, but they are social and curious and learn routes and routines; Adelie penguins steal nest stones from each other.

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**Who acts:** Real penguins, penguins, Adelie penguins · **What happens:** not plan, be, learn, steal · **To what, where:** schemes, routes, nest stones, each

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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 (Real penguins, penguins, Adelie penguins), 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:14
# text = Real penguins do not plan schemes, but they are social and curious and learn routes and routines; Adelie penguins steal nest stones from each other.
# 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	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	plan	plan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	schemes	scheme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
16	routes	route	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	routines	routine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	Adelie	adelie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	steal	steal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
23	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	obl	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	fixed	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** **plan** | present · do-support | Real penguins | schemes |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scheme=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | penguins *= penguin* |  |  |  |  | social *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | penguins *= penguin* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **learn** | present | Real penguins *not said here* | routes and routines |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent route=Topic |
| 5 | **steal** | present | Adelie penguins | nest stones |  | each |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent stone=Theme from each=Source |

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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:14`.

**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/).

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