--- title: Emperor penguin fathers keep the egg on their feet under a fold of s… — The penguin pool · tree and pragmatics description: Emperor penguin fathers keep the egg on their feet under a fold of skin for about two months of dark winter without eating, huddling and taking turns in the warm middle; emperor penguins find their partners and chicks by their calls. Who acts: penguin fathers, dark winter, emperor penguins, penguins --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # The penguin pool, sentence 13 Emperor penguin fathers keep the egg on their feet under a fold of skin for about two months of dark winter without eating, huddling and taking turns in the warm middle; emperor penguins find their partners and chicks by their calls. **Who acts:** penguin fathers, dark winter, emperor penguins, penguins · **What happens:** keep, eat, huddle, take, find, call · **To what, where:** egg, feet, turns, warm middle, partners · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (penguin fathers, dark winter, 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:099-the-penguin-pool.lesson:13 # text = Emperor penguin fathers keep the egg on their feet under a fold of skin for about two months of dark winter without eating, huddling and taking turns in the warm middle; emperor penguins find their partners and chicks by their calls. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 penguin penguin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 10 under under ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fold fold NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 without without SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 acl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 huddling huddle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=25:conj 28 turns turn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 34 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 penguins penguin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 partners partner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ _ 41 by by ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:nmod 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | penguin fathers | the egg | | eggs's feet | month | under a fold of skin | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on foot=Location | | 2 | **eat** | gerund | dark winter *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **huddle** | gerund | dark winter *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **take** | gerund | dark winter *not said here* | turns | | the warm middle | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent turn=Value in middle=Location | | 5 | **find** | present | emperor penguins | penguins's partners and chicks | | | | by penguins's calls | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Topic | | 6 | **call** | | penguins *= penguin* | | | | | | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=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:099-the-penguin-pool.lesson:13`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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 penguin pool, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/99-the-penguin-pool/12/) - next →: [The penguin pool, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/99-the-penguin-pool/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/99-the-penguin-pool/)