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title: The penguins in Madagascar are four, but real penguins live in big c… — The penguin pool · tree and pragmatics
description: The penguins in Madagascar are four, but real penguins live in big colonies, sometimes of thousands. Who acts: penguins, real penguins. A sentence of the lesson «The penguin pool» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The penguin pool, sentence 17

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The penguins in Madagascar are four, but real penguins live in big colonies, sometimes of thousands.

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**Who acts:** penguins, real penguins · **What happens:** be, live · **To what, where:** four, big colonies

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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, real 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:17
# text = The penguins in Madagascar are four, but real penguins live in big colonies, sometimes of thousands.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | the penguins in Madagascar | four |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | real penguins |  |  | big colonies and thousands |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in colony=Location |

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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:099-the-penguin-pool.lesson:17`.

**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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