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title: A penguin's body is full of clever tricks: a black back and white be… — The penguin pool · tree and pragmatics
description: A penguin's body is full of clever tricks: a black back and white belly to hide in the sea, feet that stay just above freezing, and a gland that sneezes out extra salt. Who acts: body, feet, gland. A sentence of the lesson «The penguin pool» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# The penguin pool, sentence 2

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A penguin's body is full of clever tricks: a black back and white belly to hide in the sea, feet that stay just above freezing, and a gland that sneezes out extra salt.

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**Who acts:** body, feet, gland · **What happens:** be, hide, stay, sneeze out · **To what, where:** sea, freezing, extra salt

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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 (body, feet, gland), 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:2
# text = A penguin's body is full of clever tricks: a black back and white belly to hide in the sea, feet that stay just above freezing, and a gland that sneezes out extra salt.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	penguin	penguin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	just	just	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	above	above	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	freezing	freezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	gland	gland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	sneezes	sneeze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	.	.	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** | present | a penguin's body |  |  |  |  | of clever tricks; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | to-infinitive | a penguin's body *not said here* |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sea=Location |
| 3 | **stay** | present | feet |  |  | freezing |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above freezing=Location |
| 4 | **sneeze out** | present | a gland | extra salt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:2`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/).

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