Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins, sentence 11
Some male penguins give stones to females as part of choosing a partner.
Who acts: male penguins, part · What happens: give, choose · To what, where: stones, females, partner
This is a sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins» 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 (male penguins, part), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 penguins | det |
| 2 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 penguins | amod |
| 3 | penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 females | case |
| 7 | females | female | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 part | case |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obl |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 choosing | mark |
| 11 | choosing | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 part | acl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 partner | det |
| 13 | partner | partner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 choosing | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | some male penguins | stones | females | as part | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent stone=Theme to female=Recipient | ||
| 2 | choose | gerund | part not said here | a partner | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Theme |
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:170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins.lesson:11.
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 ×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.
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