--- title: Ice that looks solid can be thin in places, and falling into freezin… — Snow, ice and strong sun · tree and pragmatics description: Ice that looks solid can be thin in places, and falling into freezing water makes it hard to breathe and move within minutes. Who acts: Ice, falling. 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 eve --- [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/25/) [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/) / 25 # Snow, ice and strong sun, sentence 25 Ice that looks solid can be thin in places, and falling into freezing water makes it hard to breathe and move within minutes. **Who acts:** Ice, falling · **What happens:** look, be, fall, freeze, make, breathe · **To what, where:** places, freezing water, water 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 (Ice, falling), 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:25 # text = Ice that looks solid can be thin in places, and falling into freezing water makes it hard to breathe and move within minutes. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 7 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 falling fall VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 csubj _ _ 13 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 freezing freeze VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 15 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj 18 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 23 within within ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | Ice | | | | | solid *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | can | Ice | | | places | | thin *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **fall** | gerund | | | | | | into freezing water *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result | | 4 | **freeze** | gerund | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **make** | present | falling | water | | | | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 6 | **breathe** | to-infinitive | falling *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **move** | infinitive | falling *not said here* | | | | minute | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:25`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/24/) - next →: [Snow, ice and strong sun, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/)