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title: Emperor penguins huddle in big groups to keep warm in the Antarctic… — Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-bloode… · tree and pragmatics
description: Emperor penguins huddle in big groups to keep warm in the Antarctic winter, and the males hold the egg on their feet under a warm fold of skin for about two months without eating while the females feed at sea; partners and chicks find each other in the crowd by their calls. Who acts: Emperor penguin
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# Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins, sentence 4

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Emperor penguins huddle in big groups to keep warm in the Antarctic winter, and the males hold the egg on their feet under a warm fold of skin for about two months without eating while the females feed at sea; partners and chicks find each other in the crowd by their calls.

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**Who acts:** Emperor penguins, males, females, partners, penguins · **What happens:** huddle, keep, hold, eat, feed, find · **To what, where:** big groups, egg, feet, sea, each, crowd · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Emperor penguins, males, females, partners), 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:4
# text = Emperor penguins huddle in big groups to keep warm in the Antarctic winter, and the males hold the egg on their feet under a warm fold of skin for about two months without eating while the females feed at sea; partners and chicks find each other in the crowd by their calls.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
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|Number=Plur|Person=3|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	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Antarctic	Antarctic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
13	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	under	under	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	fold	fold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	about	about	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
34	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
36	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
42	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	partners	partner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	chicks	chick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	_
46	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
47	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	46	obj	_	_
48	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	fixed	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
52	by	by	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=51:nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=46: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 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Emperor penguins *not said here* |  |  |  | winter | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hold** | present | the males | the egg |  | penguins's feet | month | under a warm fold of skin | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on foot=Location |
| 4 | **eat** | gerund | the males *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **feed** | present | the females |  |  | sea |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **find** | present | partners and chicks | each |  | the crowd |  | by penguins's calls | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Topic |
| 7 | **call** |  | penguins *= penguin* |  |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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