--- title: A gland above a penguin's eyes removes extra salt from its blood, an… — The penguin pool · tree and pragmatics description: A gland above a penguin's eyes removes extra salt from its blood, and the salty drips run out of its beak; albatrosses and gulls have the same gland, but people do not, so drinking seawater makes a person thirstier and ill. Who acts: gland, salty drips, albatrosses, people. A sentence of the lesson --- [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/14/) [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/) / 14 # The penguin pool, sentence 14 A gland above a penguin's eyes removes extra salt from its blood, and the salty drips run out of its beak; albatrosses and gulls have the same gland, but people do not, so drinking seawater makes a person thirstier and ill. **Who acts:** gland, salty drips, albatrosses, people, drinking · **What happens:** remove, run, have, not do, drink, make · **To what, where:** extra salt, blood, beak, same gland, seawater, person 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 (gland, salty drips, albatrosses, people), 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:14 # text = A gland above a penguin's eyes removes extra salt from its blood, and the salty drips run out of its beak; albatrosses and gulls have the same gland, but people do not, so drinking seawater makes a person thirstier and ill. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 gland gland NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 above above ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 penguin penguin NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 8 removes remove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 drips drip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 20 out out ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 albatrosses albatross NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 gulls gull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 28 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 gland gland NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 39 drinking drink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:nsubj 40 seawater seawater NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 41 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 thirstier thirsty ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 41 xcomp _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 conj _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remove** | present | a gland above a penguin's eyes | extra salt | | gland's blood | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent salt=Theme from blood=Source | | 2 | **run** | present | the salty drips | | | gland's beak | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out beak=Trajectory | | 3 | **have** | present | albatrosses and gulls | the same gland | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gland=Patient | | 4 | **not** **do** | present | people | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **drink** | gerund | | seawater | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seawater=Patient | | 6 | **make** | present | drinking | a person | | | | thirsty *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset person=Product | 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:14`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/99-the-penguin-pool/13/) - next →: [The penguin pool, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/99-the-penguin-pool/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/99-the-penguin-pool/)