--- title: Throw only soft snowballs at people who are playing, never at faces,… — Snow, ice and strong sun · tree and pragmatics description: Throw only soft snowballs at people who are playing, never at faces, cars or strangers, and never with stones or ice inside; a snowball can startle a driver into a crash. Who acts: you, people, snowball. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, people, snowball), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:234-snow-ice-and-sun.lesson:12 # text = Throw only soft snowballs at people who are playing, never at faces, cars or strangers, and never with stones or ice inside; a snowball can startle a driver into a crash. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 234-snow-ice-and-sun.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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Throw throw VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 snowballs snowball NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 17 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 20 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc 24 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 inside inside ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 snowball snowball NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 startle startle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 into into ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 crash crash NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **throw** | imperative | you *not said here* | soft snowballs | | faces and cars or strangers and stones or ice | | at people | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent snowball=Theme at people=Destination | | 2 | **play** | present · progressive | people | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **startle** | can | a snowball | a driver | | a crash | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus driver=Experiencer | 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:everyday:234-snow-ice-and-sun.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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Snow, ice and strong sun, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/11/) - next →: [Snow, ice and strong sun, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/)