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title: Chinstrap penguins guarding nests were reported to take over ten tho… — How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Chinstrap penguins guarding nests were reported to take over ten thousand tiny naps a day, each a few seconds long, adding up to about eleven hours. Who acts: Chinstrap penguins. A sentence of the lesson «How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses, short-sleeping giraffes and birds tha
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# How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses, short-sleeping giraffes and birds that nap in the air, sentence 14

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Chinstrap penguins guarding nests were reported to take over ten thousand tiny naps a day, each a few seconds long, adding up to about eleven hours.

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**Who acts:** Chinstrap penguins · **What happens:** guard, report, take over, add up · **To what, where:** nests, Chinstrap penguins, thousand tiny naps

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses, short-sleeping giraffes and birds that nap in the air» 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 (Chinstrap penguins), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:390-how-animals-sleep-half-asleep-dolphins-standing-horses-short-sleeping-giraffes-and-birds-that-nap-in-the-air.lesson:14
# text = Chinstrap penguins guarding nests were reported to take over ten thousand tiny naps a day, each a few seconds long, adding up to about eleven hours.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 390-how-animals-sleep-half-asleep-dolphins-standing-horses-short-sleeping-giraffes-and-birds-that-nap-in-the-air.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 ×2
1	Chinstrap	chinstrap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	guarding	guard	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
10	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	naps	nap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	each	each	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nsubj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	adding	add	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **guard** | gerund | Chinstrap penguins *not said here* | nests |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **report** | past · passive |  | Chinstrap penguins |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take over** | to-infinitive |  | thousand tiny naps  a day |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Theme |
| 4 | **add up** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  | hour |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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**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:390-how-animals-sleep-half-asleep-dolphins-standing-horses-short-sleeping-giraffes-and-birds-that-nap-in-the-air.lesson:14`.

**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 ×2. **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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