--- title: In a blizzard thousands of emperor penguins huddle together and slow… — Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-bloode… · tree and pragmatics description: In a blizzard thousands of emperor penguins huddle together and slowly shuffle, so the ones on the cold edge take turns in the warm middle, like children crowding together at a cold bus stop. Who acts: thousands, ones, children. A sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, cl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/) / 2 # Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins, sentence 2 In a blizzard thousands of emperor penguins huddle together and slowly shuffle, so the ones on the cold edge take turns in the warm middle, like children crowding together at a cold bus stop. **Who acts:** thousands, ones, children · **What happens:** huddle, shuffle, take, crowd together · **To what, where:** blizzard, turns, warm middle, cold bus stop 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 (thousands, ones, children), 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:2 # text = In a blizzard thousands of emperor penguins huddle together and slowly shuffle, so the ones on the cold edge take turns in the warm middle, like children crowding together at a cold bus stop. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 blizzard blizzard NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 penguins penguin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 huddle huddle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 together together ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 shuffle shuffle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 14 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 22 turns turn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 like like ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 30 crowding crowd VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 acl _ _ 31 together together ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 stop stop NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **huddle** | present | thousands of emperor penguins | | | a blizzard | | together *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in blizzard=Location | | 2 | **shuffle** | present | thousands of emperor penguins *not said here* | | | | | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **take** | present | the ones on the cold edge | turns | | the warm middle | | like children | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent turn=Value in middle=Location | | 4 | **crowd together** | gerund | children *not said here* | | | a cold bus stop | | together *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at stop=Destination | 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. **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:2`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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. 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