The penguin pool, sentence 12

Adelie and gentoo penguins build nests of pebbles that keep eggs out of meltwater and mud; bare stones are scarce there, and they sometimes steal pebbles from their neighbours.

Who acts: Adelie penguins, pebbles, bare stones, penguins · What happens: build, keep, be, steal · To what, where: nests, eggs, meltwater, pebbles, neighbours

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 (Adelie penguins, pebbles, bare stones, 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	Adelie	Adelie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 penguins	compound
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 gentoo	cc
3	gentoo	gentoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Adelie	conj
4	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 build	nsubj
5	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 build	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 pebbles	case
8	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 nests	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 keep	nsubj
10	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 pebbles	acl:relcl
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 keep	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	14 meltwater	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 meltwater	case
14	meltwater	meltwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keep	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 mud	cc
16	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 meltwater	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 scarce	punct
18	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stones	amod
19	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 scarce	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 scarce	cop
21	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 build	parataxis
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 scarce	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 steal	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 steal	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 steal	nsubj
26	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 steal	advmod
27	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 build	conj
28	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 steal	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 neighbours	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 neighbours	nmod:poss
31	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 steal	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 build	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	present	Adelie penguins	nests of pebbles			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product
2	keep	present	pebbles	eggs	meltwater and mud		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent egg=Theme out meltwater=Location
3	is	present	bare stones		there	scarce property	tree rules
4	steal	present	penguins = penguin	pebbles	penguins's neighbours	sometimes property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme from neighbour=Source

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:12.

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. 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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