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title: If someone falls through ice, do not go out after them; shout for he… — Snow, ice and strong sun · tree and pragmatics
description: If someone falls through ice, do not go out after them; shout for help and reach out to them with a long stick or branch from the bank. Who acts: someone, you. 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 pragmat
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# Snow, ice and strong sun, sentence 26

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If someone falls through ice, do not go out after them; shout for help and reach out to them with a long stick or branch from the bank.

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**Who acts:** someone, you · **What happens:** fall, not go out, shout, reach out · **To what, where:** ice, places

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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 (someone, you), 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:26
# text = If someone falls through ice, do not go out after them; shout for help and reach out to them with a long stick or branch from the bank.
# 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 ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	shout	shout	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc
18	reach	reach	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **fall** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone |  |  | ice |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through ice=Location |
| 2 | **not** **go out** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  | after places *= place* | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for help | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
| 4 | **reach out** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | places *= place* |  |  | with a long stick from the bank or branch | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:26`.

**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 ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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