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title: Penguins «fly» under water with stiff, short flippers, and gentoo pe… — The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and ch… · tree and pragmatics
description: Penguins «fly» under water with stiff, short flippers, and gentoo penguins can swim at about 35 km per hour, faster than any other bird under water. Who acts: Penguins, gentoo penguins. A sentence of the lesson «The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps» of the biology course of Mova's pr
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# The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps, sentence 7

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Penguins «fly» under water with stiff, short flippers, and gentoo penguins can swim at about 35 km per hour, faster than any other bird under water.

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**Who acts:** Penguins, gentoo penguins · **What happens:** fly, swim · **To what, where:** water, 35 km

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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 (Penguins, gentoo 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:7
# text = Penguins «fly» under water with stiff, short flippers, and gentoo penguins can swim at about 35 km per hour, faster than any other bird under water.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
3	fly	fly	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	flippers	flipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	gentoo	gentoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	35	35	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
22	per	per	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	parataxis	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	under	under	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **fly** *in a quote* | infinitive | Penguins |  |  | water |  | with stiff short flippers | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent under water=Location |
| 2 | **swim** | can | gentoo penguins |  |  | 35 km per hour |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at km=Trajectory |

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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:7`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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