The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps, sentence 16

Emperor penguins huddle in big groups and shuffle so that everyone takes turns in the warm middle, which can be warmer than a summer day.

Who acts: Emperor penguins, everyone, warm middle · What happens: huddle, shuffle, take, be · To what, where: big groups, turns, warm middle

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 (Emperor penguins, everyone, warm middle), 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 penguins	compound
2	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 huddle	nsubj
3	huddle	huddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 groups	case
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 groups	amod
6	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 huddle	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shuffle	cc
8	shuffle	shuffle	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 huddle	conj
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 takes	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 takes	mark
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 takes	nsubj
12	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 shuffle	advcl
13	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 takes	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 middle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 middle	det
16	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 middle	amod
17	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 takes	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 warmer	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 warmer	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 warmer	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 warmer	cop
22	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 middle	acl:relcl
23	than	than	ADP	_	26 day	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 day	det
25	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 day	compound
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 warmer	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 huddle	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	huddle	present	Emperor penguins		big groups			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location
2	shuffle	present	Emperor penguins not said here					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	present	everyone	turns	the warm middle			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent turn=Value in middle=Location
4	is	can	the warm middle			day	warm property	tree rules

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:16.

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): 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.

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