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title: Keep off icy equipment, because ice is very slippery and falls on it… — Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds · tree and pragmatics
description: Keep off icy equipment, because ice is very slippery and falls on it are hard. Who acts: you, ice. A sentence of the lesson «Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds, sentence 20

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Keep off icy equipment, because ice is very slippery and falls on it are hard.

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**Who acts:** you, ice · **What happens:** keep off, be, fall · **To what, where:** icy equipment, ice

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds» 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 (you, ice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:228-parks-and-playgrounds.lesson:20
# text = Keep off icy equipment, because ice is very slippery and falls on it are hard.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 228-parks-and-playgrounds.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	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	equipment	equipment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	nsubj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **keep off** | imperative | you *not said here* | icy equipment |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent equipment=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | ice |  |  |  |  | slippery *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** | present |  |  |  | ice |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on it=Location |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |

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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:228-parks-and-playgrounds.lesson:20`.

**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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