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title: The surface of ice has a very thin, slippery layer, so shoes have li… — Reasoning about the body moving in the world · tree and pragmatics
description: The surface of ice has a very thin, slippery layer, so shoes have little grip on it. Who acts: surface, shoes. A sentence of the lesson «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Reasoning about the body moving in the world, sentence 13

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The surface of ice has a very thin, slippery layer, so shoes have little grip on it.

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**Who acts:** surface, shoes · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** thin slippery layer, little grip, Grip

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday 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 (surface, shoes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.lesson:13
# text = The surface of ice has a very thin, slippery layer, so shoes have little grip on it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	layer	layer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	grip	grip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the surface of ice | a thin slippery layer |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | shoes | little grip |  | Grip |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grip=Patient |

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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.

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**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:everyday:010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.lesson:13`.

**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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