The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps, sentence 13
Emperor penguin fathers keep the egg warm on their feet for about two months without eating.
Who acts: penguin fathers · What happens: keep, eat · To what, where: egg, feet
This is a sentence of the lesson «The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 penguin | compound |
| 2 | penguin | penguin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fathers | compound |
| 3 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 egg | det |
| 6 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obj |
| 7 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 keep | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 feet | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 feet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 keep | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 months | case |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 two | advmod |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 months | nummod |
| 14 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 keep | obl |
| 15 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 16 eating | mark |
| 16 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 keep | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | penguin fathers | the egg | fathers's feet | month | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on foot=Location | |
| 2 | eat | gerund | penguin fathers not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps.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): 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.
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