--- title: Male emperor penguins huddle in thousands, each with an egg on his f… — Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole… · tree and pragmatics description: Male emperor penguins huddle in thousands, each with an egg on his feet under a warm fold of belly skin, taking turns at the cold edge; inside the huddle it can be more than 20 degrees warmer than outside, and the fathers eat nothing for about two months. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Male emperor penguins, huddle, fathers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.lesson:12 # text = Male emperor penguins huddle in thousands, each with an egg on his feet under a warm fold of belly skin, taking turns at the cold edge; inside the huddle it can be more than 20 degrees warmer than outside, and the fathers eat nothing for about two months. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.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, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 penguins penguin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 huddle huddle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 3 appos _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 under under ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 fold fold NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 belly belly NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl 24 turns turn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 30 inside inside ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 huddle huddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 36 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 advmod _ _ 37 than than ADP IN _ 36 fixed _ _ 38 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 warmer warm ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 41 than than ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 outside outside ADV RB _ 40 obl _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nsubj _ _ 47 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=40:conj 48 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 47 obj _ _ 49 for for ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 50 about about ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 51 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 52 nummod _ _ 52 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obl _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | Male emperor penguins | | | thousands | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in thousand=Location | | 2 | **take** | gerund | Male emperor penguins *not said here* | turns | | the cold edge | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent turn=Theme at edge=Asset | | 3 | **is** | can | huddle | | | the huddle | | more *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **eat** | present | the fathers | nothing | | | month | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | 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:241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.lesson:12`. **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, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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