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title: A boy in Michigan went ice fishing alone on early winter ice; it cra… — Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Michigan went ice fishing alone on early winter ice; it cracked under him and he only got out because a man nearby heard him shout. Who acts: boy, ice, man. A sentence of the lesson «Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing, sentence 19

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A boy in Michigan went ice fishing alone on early winter ice; it cracked under him and he only got out because a man nearby heard him shout.

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**Who acts:** boy, ice, man · **What happens:** go, fish, crack, get out, hear, shout · **To what, where:** ice, early winter ice, boy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing» 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 (boy, ice, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing.lesson:19
# text = A boy in Michigan went ice fishing alone on early winter ice; it cracked under him and he only got out because a man nearby heard him shout.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Michigan	Michigan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	fishing	fish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	cracked	crack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
22	out	out	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod
27	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	shout	shout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **go** | past | a boy in Michigan | ice |  | early winter ice |  | alone *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ice=Theme |
| 2 | **fish** | gerund | ice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **crack** | past | Ice |  |  |  |  | under boy | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under he=Location |
| 4 | **get out** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hear** | past | a man | boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **shout** *speech: express* | infinitive | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing.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 ×4, 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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