--- title: Keep snow forts small and open, and never dig tunnels in snow piles… — Snow, ice and strong sun · tree and pragmatics description: Keep snow forts small and open, and never dig tunnels in snow piles by the road, because snow collapses and snowploughs push snow there. Who acts: you, snow, snowploughs. A sentence of the lesson «Snow, ice and strong sun» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/13/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Snow, ice and strong sun](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/) / 13 # Snow, ice and strong sun, sentence 13 Keep snow forts small and open, and never dig tunnels in snow piles by the road, because snow collapses and snowploughs push snow there. **Who acts:** you, snow, snowploughs · **What happens:** keep, not dig, collapse, push · **To what, where:** snow forts, tunnels, snow piles, snow This is a sentence of the lesson «Snow, ice and strong sun» 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, snow, snowploughs), 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:13 # text = Keep snow forts small and open, and never dig tunnels in snow piles by the road, because snow collapses and snowploughs push snow there. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 forts fort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 dig dig VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 tunnels tunnel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 piles pile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 collapses collapse VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 snowploughs snowplough NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 25 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | snow forts | | | | small *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fort=Theme | | 2 | **not** **dig** | infinitive | you *not said here* | tunnels | | snow piles | | by the road | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tunnel=Theme by road=Location | | 3 | **collapse** | present | snow | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **push** | present | snowploughs | snow | | there | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Theme | 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: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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/12/) - next →: [Snow, ice and strong sun, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/)