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title: Frostbite can damage fingers, toes, ears and noses in the cold, and… — Snow, ice and strong sun · tree and pragmatics
description: Frostbite can damage fingers, toes, ears and noses in the cold, and wet clothes make it happen faster. Who acts: Frostbite, wet clothes. 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 27

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Frostbite can damage fingers, toes, ears and noses in the cold, and wet clothes make it happen faster.

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**Who acts:** Frostbite, wet clothes · **What happens:** damage, make, happen · **To what, where:** fingers, cold, frostbite

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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 (Frostbite, wet clothes), 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:27
# text = Frostbite can damage fingers, toes, ears and noses in the cold, and wet clothes make it happen faster.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Frostbite	frostbite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:aux
3	damage	damage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	18	nsubj	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	xcomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | **damage** | can | Frostbite | fingers and toes and ears and noses |  | the cold |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present | wet clothes | frostbite |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **happen** | infinitive | frostbite *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:27`.

**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, R6-punct-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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