--- title: People should never walk on pond ice, because it can break suddenly;… — The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, sw… · tree and pragmatics description: People should never walk on pond ice, because it can break suddenly; if a dog goes onto the ice, nobody should follow it, but call for help. Who acts: People, ice, dog, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice» of the biology course o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The park pond through the year: ducks,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice/) / 17 # The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice, sentence 17 People should never walk on pond ice, because it can break suddenly; if a dog goes onto the ice, nobody should follow it, but call for help. **Who acts:** People, ice, dog, nobody · **What happens:** not walk, break, go, follow, call · **To what, where:** pond ice, ice · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice» 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 (People, ice, dog, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice.lesson:17 # text = People should never walk on pond ice, because it can break suddenly; if a dog goes onto the ice, nobody should follow it, but call for help. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 13 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 19 onto onto ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 25 nsubj _ _ 24 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:nmod 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **walk** | should | People | | | pond ice | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ice=Trajectory | | 2 | **break** | can | ice | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a dog | | | the ice | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme onto ice=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **follow** | should | nobody | ice | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **call** | infinitive | nobody *not said here* | | | | | for help | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice.lesson:17`. **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 ×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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