--- title: An emperor penguin father keeps the egg on his feet under a fold of… — Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents · tree and pragmatics description: An emperor penguin father keeps the egg on his feet under a fold of belly skin for about 2 months of Antarctic winter, eating nothing, while the mother feeds at sea. Who acts: penguin father, mother. 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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 father, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:049-babies.lesson:5 # text = An emperor penguin father keeps the egg on his feet under a fold of belly skin for about 2 months of Antarctic winter, eating nothing, while the mother feeds at sea. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 049-babies.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 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 penguin penguin NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 under under ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 fold fold NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 belly belly NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Antarctic Antarctic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 winter Winter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 flat _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 26 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 while while SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **keep** | present | a penguin father | the egg | | father'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 | a penguin father *not said here* | nothing | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | | 3 | **feed** | present | the mother | | | sea | | | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | 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:049-babies.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/4/) - next →: [Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/)