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title: Some male penguins give stones to females as part of choosing a part… — Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-bloode… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some male penguins give stones to females as part of choosing a partner. Who acts: male penguins, part. A sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins, sentence 11

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Some male penguins give stones to females as part of choosing a partner.

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**Who acts:** male penguins, part · **What happens:** give, choose · **To what, where:** stones, females, partner

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins» 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 (male penguins, part), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins.lesson:11
# text = Some male penguins give stones to females as part of choosing a partner.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins.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 ×2
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
11	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	partner	partner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **give** | present | some male penguins | stones | females |  |  | as part | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent stone=Theme to female=Recipient |
| 2 | **choose** | gerund | part *not said here* | a partner |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Theme |

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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:170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins.lesson:11`.

**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 ×2. **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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