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title: Walk around frozen puddles, because ice is very slippery. — Snow, ice and strong sun · tree and pragmatics
description: Walk around frozen puddles, because ice is very slippery. Who acts: you, ice. A sentence of the lesson «Snow, ice and strong sun» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Snow, ice and strong sun, sentence 16

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Walk around frozen puddles, because ice is very slippery.

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**Who acts:** you, ice · **What happens:** walk, freeze, be · **To what, where:** frozen puddles

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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, ice), 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:16
# text = Walk around frozen puddles, because ice is very slippery.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	around	around	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
3	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	puddles	puddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
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	.	.	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 | **walk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | frozen puddles |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around puddle=Trajectory |
| 2 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | ice |  |  |  |  | slippery *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:234-snow-ice-and-sun.lesson:16`.

**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): 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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