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title: Snow and ice also hide dangers from above and below: heavy snow and… — Snow, ice and strong sun · tree and pragmatics
description: Snow and ice also hide dangers from above and below: heavy snow and icicles can fall from roofs, snow piles can collapse, ice is slippery, and snowploughs push snow off the road into the piles by the kerb. Who acts: Snow, heavy snow, snow piles, ice. A sentence of the lesson «Snow, ice and strong su
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# Snow, ice and strong sun, sentence 3

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Snow and ice also hide dangers from above and below: heavy snow and icicles can fall from roofs, snow piles can collapse, ice is slippery, and snowploughs push snow off the road into the piles by the kerb.

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**Who acts:** Snow, heavy snow, snow piles, ice, snowploughs · **What happens:** hide, fall, collapse, be, push · **To what, where:** dangers, roofs, snow, piles

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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 (Snow, heavy snow, snow piles, 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:3
# text = Snow and ice also hide dangers from above and below: heavy snow and icicles can fall from roofs, snow piles can collapse, ice is slippery, and snowploughs push snow off the road into the piles by the kerb.
# 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 ×2
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	above	above	ADV	RB	_	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	below	below	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
12	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	icicles	icicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	piles	pile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	collapse	collapse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	snowploughs	snowplough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
33	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	off	off	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	piles	pile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:nmod
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	kerb	kerb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **hide** | present | Snow and ice | dangers |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent danger=Patient from above=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **fall** | can | heavy snow and icicles |  |  | roofs |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from roof=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **collapse** | can | snow piles |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | ice |  |  |  |  | slippery *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **push** | present | snowploughs | snow |  | the piles by the kerb |  | off the road | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent snow=Theme off road=Initial\_Location into pile=Destination |

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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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**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 ×2. **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.

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