---
title: The animals beat the cold by teamwork and clever bodies: emperor pen… — Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest plac… · tree and pragmatics
description: The animals beat the cold by teamwork and clever bodies: emperor penguins huddle in a blizzard and take turns in the warm middle, icefish carry natural antifreeze, and seals keep breathing holes open in the ice. Who acts: animals, emperor penguins, icefish, seals. A sentence of the lesson «Antarctic
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/2/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Antarctica: penguins, seals and the co…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/) / 2

# Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth, sentence 2

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The animals beat the cold by teamwork and clever bodies: emperor penguins huddle in a blizzard and take turns in the warm middle, icefish carry natural antifreeze, and seals keep breathing holes open in the ice.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** animals, emperor penguins, icefish, seals · **What happens:** beat, huddle, take, carry, keep, breathe · **To what, where:** cold, blizzard, turns, warm middle, natural antifreeze, holes

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth» 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 (animals, emperor penguins, icefish, seals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:007-antarctica.lesson:2
# text = The animals beat the cold by teamwork and clever bodies: emperor penguins huddle in a blizzard and take turns in the warm middle, icefish carry natural antifreeze, and seals keep breathing holes open in the ice.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 007-antarctica.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	teamwork	teamwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	huddle	huddle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	blizzard	blizzard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
20	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	icefish	icefish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	antifreeze	antifreeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
34	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	xcomp	_	_
35	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
36	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | present | the animals | the cold |  |  |  | by teamwork and clever bodies | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cold=Theme |
| 2 | **huddle** | present | emperor penguins |  |  | a blizzard |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in blizzard=Location |
| 3 | **take** | present | emperor penguins *not said here* | turns |  | the warm middle |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent turn=Value in middle=Location |
| 4 | **carry** | present | icefish | natural antifreeze |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antifreeze=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** | present | seals |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **breathe** | gerund | seals *not said here* | holes |  |  |  | open *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:007-antarctica.lesson:2`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Antarctica: penguins, seals and the co…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/1/)
- next →: [Antarctica: penguins, seals and the co…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/3/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/)

