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title: Grit or sand sprinkled on an icy path gives shoes more grip. — Reasoning about the body moving in the world · tree and pragmatics
description: Grit or sand sprinkled on an icy path gives shoes more grip. Who acts: Grit. 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 15

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Grit or sand sprinkled on an icy path gives shoes more grip.

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**Who acts:** Grit · **What happens:** sprinkle, give · **To what, where:** Grit, icy path, more grip, shoes

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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 (Grit), 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:15
# text = Grit or sand sprinkled on an icy path gives shoes more grip.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Grit	grit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:acl
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	iobj	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	grip	grip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sprinkle** | participle |  | Grit or sand *not said here* |  | a icy path |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on path=Destination |
| 2 | **give** | present | Grit or sand | more grip | shoes |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Recipient grip=Theme |

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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:15`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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