--- title: In Happy Feet the emperor penguins find their partners by singing, a… — Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest plac… · tree and pragmatics description: In Happy Feet the emperor penguins find their partners by singing, and that part is truer than it looks: real emperor penguins recognise their mate and their chick by voice in a crowd of thousands. Who acts: emperor penguins, part, real emperor penguins. 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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 (emperor penguins, part, real emperor penguins), 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:4 # text = In Happy Feet the emperor penguins find their partners by singing, and that part is truer than it looks: real emperor penguins recognise their mate and their chick by voice in a crowd of thousands. # 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): no change 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 Happy happy PROPN NNP _ 3 flat _ _ 3 Feet foot PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 penguins penguin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 partners partner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 by by SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 singing sing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 15 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 truer true ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 conj _ _ 18 than than SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 penguins penguin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 recognise recognise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 chick chick NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present | the emperor penguins | penguins's partners | | Happy Feet | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Topic | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the emperor penguins *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | that part | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **look** | present | part | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **recognise** | present | real emperor penguins | penguins's mate and penguins's chick | | a crowd of thousands | | by voice | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mate=Stimulus | 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:007-antarctica.lesson:4`. **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: [Antarctica: penguins, seals and the co…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/3/) - next →: [Antarctica: penguins, seals and the co…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/)