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title: Rubbing snow on frozen skin harms it; warm frostbitten skin slowly i… — The night sky and outdoor myths · tree and pragmatics
description: Rubbing snow on frozen skin harms it; warm frostbitten skin slowly instead. A sentence of the lesson «The night sky and outdoor myths» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The night sky and outdoor myths, sentence 19

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Rubbing snow on frozen skin harms it; warm frostbitten skin slowly instead.

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**What happens:** rub, freeze, harm · **To what, where:** snow, frozen skin

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The night sky and outdoor myths» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.lesson:19
# text = Rubbing snow on frozen skin harms it; warm frostbitten skin slowly instead.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.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	Rubbing	rub	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	nsubj	_	_
2	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
5	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod
6	harms	harm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	frostbitten	frostbite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | gerund |  | snow |  | frozen skin |  | instead *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent snow=Theme on skin=Destination |
| 2 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **harm** | present |  | snow |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |

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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:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.lesson:19`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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