Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth, sentence 6
Emperor penguins find their partners and chicks among thousands of others by recognising their calls.
Who acts: Emperor penguins, penguins · What happens: find, recognise, call · To what, where: partners, calls · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth» 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, penguins), 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 find | nsubj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 partners | nmod:poss |
| 5 | partners | partner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 find | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 chicks | cc |
| 7 | chicks | chick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 partners | conj |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 thousands | case |
| 9 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 find | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 others | case |
| 11 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 thousands | nmod |
| 12 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 13 recognising | mark |
| 13 | recognising | recognise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 find | advcl |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 calls | nmod:poss |
| 15 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 recognising | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | Emperor penguins | penguins's partners and chicks | among thousands of others | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Topic | |||
| 2 | recognise | gerund | Emperor penguins not said here | penguins's calls | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | call | penguins = penguin | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=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:007-antarctica.lesson:6.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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