Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents, sentence 5
An emperor penguin father keeps the egg on his feet under a fold of belly skin for about 2 months of Antarctic winter, eating nothing, while the mother feeds at sea.
Who acts: penguin father, mother · What happens: keep, eat, feed · To what, where: egg, feet, nothing, sea
This is a sentence of the lesson «Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents» 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 father, mother), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 father | det |
| 2 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 penguin | compound |
| 3 | penguin | penguin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 father | compound |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keeps | nsubj |
| 5 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 egg | det |
| 7 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keeps | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 feet | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 feet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 keeps | obl |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 fold | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fold | det |
| 13 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keeps | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 skin | case |
| 15 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 skin | compound |
| 16 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fold | nmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 months | case |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 2 | advmod |
| 19 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 months | nummod |
| 20 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 keeps | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Antarctic | case |
| 22 | Antarctic | Antarctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 months | nmod |
| 23 | winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Antarctic | flat |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 eating | punct |
| 25 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 keeps | advcl |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 eating | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 feeds | punct |
| 28 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 feeds | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 mother | det |
| 30 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 feeds | nsubj |
| 31 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 keeps | advcl |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 sea | case |
| 33 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 feeds | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keeps | 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 | a penguin father | the egg | father's feet | month | under a fold of belly skin | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on foot=Location | |
| 2 | eat | gerund | a penguin father not said here | nothing | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | feed | present | the mother | sea | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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:049-babies.lesson:5.
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): R5-strong ×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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