--- title: Two boys in Minnesota walked onto a frozen pond to fetch a ball; the… — Snow, ice and strong sun · tree and pragmatics description: Two boys in Minnesota walked onto a frozen pond to fetch a ball; the ice cracked and one fell through into freezing water, and firefighters had to rescue him. Who acts: Two boys, ice, one, firefighters. 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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 (Two boys, ice, one, firefighters), 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:23 # text = Two boys in Minnesota walked onto a frozen pond to fetch a ball; the ice cracked and one fell through into freezing water, and firefighters had to rescue him. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Minnesota Minnesota PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 onto onto ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 9 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 fetch fetch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 cracked crack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nsubj _ _ 20 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 21 through through ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 freezing freeze ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 firefighters firefighter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 rescue rescue VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | past | Two boys in Minnesota | | | a frozen pond | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto pond=Trajectory | | 2 | **freeze** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | Two boys in Minnesota *not said here* | a ball | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | | 4 | **crack** | past | the ice | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fall through** | past | one | | | | | into freezing water *result*; through *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result | | 6 | **have** | past | firefighters | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **rescue** | to-infinitive | firefighters *not said here* | ice | | | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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:23`. **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, 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, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/22/) - next →: [Snow, ice and strong sun, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/)