--- title: Emperor penguin fathers hold the egg on their feet under a fold of b… — Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrot… · tree and pragmatics description: Emperor penguin fathers hold the egg on their feet under a fold of belly skin for about two months without eating, near minus 40 degrees, huddling in thousands and taking turns in the warm middle. Who acts: penguin fathers. 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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 (penguin fathers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:035-birds-of-every-kind.lesson:5 # text = Emperor penguin fathers hold the egg on their feet under a fold of belly skin for about two months without eating, near minus 40 degrees, huddling in thousands and taking turns in the warm middle. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 035-birds-of-every-kind.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): no change 1 Emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 penguin penguin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 10 under under ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fold fold NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 belly belly NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 20 without without SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 near near ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 minus minus ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 huddling huddle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 33 turns turn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present | penguin fathers | the egg | | fathers's feet | month | under a fold of belly skin | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on foot=Location | | 2 | **eat** | gerund | penguin fathers *not said here* | | | 40 degrees | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **huddle** | gerund | penguin fathers *not said here* | | | thousands | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in thousand=Location | | 4 | **take** | gerund | penguin fathers *not said here* | turns | | the warm middle | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent turn=Value in middle=Location | 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:035-birds-of-every-kind.lesson:5`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Birds of every kind: penguins, ostrich…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/35-birds-of-every-kind/4/) - next →: [Birds of every kind: penguins, ostrich…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/35-birds-of-every-kind/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/35-birds-of-every-kind/)