--- title: On land penguins waddle like clumsy toys, but the moment they dive t… — The penguin pool · tree and pragmatics description: On land penguins waddle like clumsy toys, but the moment they dive they shoot through the water like torpedoes, because their wings have become stiff flippers and their bodies are built for swimming. Who acts: penguins, wings. A sentence of the lesson «The penguin pool» of the biology course of Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/99-the-penguin-pool/0/) [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/) / [The penguin pool](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/99-the-penguin-pool/) / 0 # The penguin pool, sentence 0 On land penguins waddle like clumsy toys, but the moment they dive they shoot through the water like torpedoes, because their wings have become stiff flippers and their bodies are built for swimming. **Who acts:** penguins, wings · **What happens:** waddle, dive, shoot, become, build · **To what, where:** land, moment, water, stiff flippers, bodies This is a sentence of the lesson «The penguin pool» 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 (penguins, wings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:099-the-penguin-pool.lesson:0 # text = On land penguins waddle like clumsy toys, but the moment they dive they shoot through the water like torpedoes, because their wings have become stiff flippers and their bodies are built for swimming. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 099-the-penguin-pool.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 penguins penguin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 waddle waddle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 clumsy clumsy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 toys toy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 dive dive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advcl 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 shoot shoot VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 16 through through ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 torpedoes torpedo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 become become VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 27 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 flippers flipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obj 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 swimming swimming NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **waddle** | present | penguins | land | | | | like clumsy toys | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **dive** | present | penguins *= penguin* | the moment *not said here* | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moment=Theme | | 3 | **shoot** | present | penguins *= penguin* | | | the water like torpedoes | moment | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent through water=Destination | | 4 | **become** | present · perfect | penguins's wings | stiff flippers | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **build** | present · passive | | penguins's bodies | | | | for swimming | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for swimming=Asset | 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:099-the-penguin-pool.lesson:0`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [The butterfly house, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/17/) - next →: [The penguin pool, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/99-the-penguin-pool/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/99-the-penguin-pool/)