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title: Emperor penguins huddle in big groups and shuffle so that everyone t… — The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and ch… · tree and pragmatics
description: Emperor penguins huddle in big groups and shuffle so that everyone takes turns in the warm middle, which can be warmer than a summer day. Who acts: Emperor penguins, everyone, warm middle. A sentence of the lesson «The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps» of the biology course of Mova's
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# The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps, sentence 16

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Emperor penguins huddle in big groups and shuffle so that everyone takes turns in the warm middle, which can be warmer than a summer day.

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**Who acts:** Emperor penguins, everyone, warm middle · **What happens:** huddle, shuffle, take, be · **To what, where:** big groups, turns, warm middle

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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 (Emperor penguins, everyone, warm middle), 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:16
# text = Emperor penguins huddle in big groups and shuffle so that everyone takes turns in the warm middle, which can be warmer than a summer day.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound
3	huddle	huddle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	shuffle	shuffle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
12	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **huddle** | present | Emperor penguins |  |  | big groups |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location |
| 2 | **shuffle** | present | Emperor penguins *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | present | everyone | turns |  | the warm middle |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent turn=Value in middle=Location |
| 4 | **is** | can | the warm middle |  |  |  | day | warm *property* | tree rules |

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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:16`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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