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title: Emperor penguins find their partners and chicks among thousands of o… — Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest plac… · tree and pragmatics
description: Emperor penguins find their partners and chicks among thousands of others by recognising their calls. Who acts: Emperor penguins, penguins. A sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth, sentence 6

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Emperor penguins find their partners and chicks among thousands of others by recognising their calls.

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**Who acts:** Emperor penguins, penguins · **What happens:** find, recognise, call · **To what, where:** partners, calls · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Emperor penguins, 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:6
# text = Emperor penguins find their partners and chicks among thousands of others by recognising their calls.
# 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	Emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	partners	partner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	chicks	chick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	recognising	recognise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **find** | present | Emperor penguins | penguins's partners and chicks |  |  |  | among thousands of others | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Topic |
| 2 | **recognise** | gerund | Emperor penguins *not said here* | penguins's calls |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus |
| 3 | **call** |  | penguins *= penguin* |  |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:007-antarctica.lesson:6`.

**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/).

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