The penguin pool, sentence 10

Warm blood flowing to a penguin's feet passes cold blood coming back and warms it, so its feet stay just above freezing and little heat is lost.

Who acts: Warm blood, cold blood, feet · What happens: flow, pass, come back, warm, stay, lose · To what, where: cold blood, blood, freezing, little heat

This is a sentence of the lesson «The penguin pool» 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 (Warm blood, cold blood, feet), 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	Warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 blood	amod
2	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 passes	nsubj
3	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 blood	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 feet	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 penguin	det
6	penguin	penguin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feet	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 penguin	case
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flowing	obl
9	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 blood	amod
11	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 passes	obj
12	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 blood	acl
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 coming	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 warms	cc
15	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 passes	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 warms	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stay	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 stay	advmod
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 feet	nmod:poss
20	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stay	nsubj
21	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 passes	conj
22	just	just	ADV	_	24 freezing	advmod
23	above	above	ADP	_	24 freezing	case
24	freezing	freezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stay	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 lost	cc
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 heat	amod
27	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lost	nsubj:pass
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 lost	aux:pass
29	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 stay	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 passes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flow	gerund	Warm blood not said here			to a penguin's feet	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	present	Warm blood	cold blood			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme blood=Trajectory
3	come back	gerund	cold blood not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	warm	present	Warm blood not said here	blood			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	stay	present	blood's feet		freezing		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above freezing=Location
6	lose	present · passive		little heat			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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:099-the-penguin-pool.lesson:10.

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 ×1, 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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