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title: Penguins slide on their bellies, called tobogganing, to travel fast… — Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-bloode… · tree and pragmatics
description: Penguins slide on their bellies, called tobogganing, to travel fast on snow, and Adélie penguins can shoot out of the water and jump onto the ice. Who acts: Penguins, bellies, Adélie penguins. A sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguin
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# Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins, sentence 9

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Penguins slide on their bellies, called tobogganing, to travel fast on snow, and Adélie penguins can shoot out of the water and jump onto the ice.

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**Who acts:** Penguins, bellies, Adélie penguins · **What happens:** slide, call, travel, shoot, jump · **To what, where:** bellies, tobogganing, snow, water, ice · **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 (Penguins, bellies, Adélie penguins), 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:9
# text = Penguins slide on their bellies, called tobogganing, to travel fast on snow, and Adélie penguins can shoot out of the water and jump onto the ice.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	slide	slide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	bellies	belly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	tobogganing	toboggan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl
12	fast	fast	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	Adélie	Adélie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
27	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **slide** | present | Penguins |  |  | penguins's bellies |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on belly=Trajectory |
| 2 | **call** | participle | penguins's bellies *not said here* | tobogganing |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **travel** | to-infinitive | Penguins *not said here* |  |  | snow |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on snow=Trajectory |
| 4 | **shoot** | can | Adélie penguins |  |  | the water |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent out water=Destination |
| 5 | **jump** | infinitive | Adélie penguins *not said here* |  |  | the ice |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto ice=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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**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, 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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