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title: Ice on a pond looks solid but may be thin: only skate where adults h… — Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing · tree and pragmatics
description: Ice on a pond looks solid but may be thin: only skate where adults have checked it is at least 10 cm thick, or on a marked rink. Who acts: Ice, adults. A sentence of the lesson «Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing, sentence 2

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Ice on a pond looks solid but may be thin: only skate where adults have checked it is at least 10 cm thick, or on a marked rink.

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**Who acts:** Ice, adults · **What happens:** look, be, check, mark

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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 (Ice, adults), 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:2
# text = Ice on a pond looks solid but may be thin: only skate where adults have checked it is at least 10 cm thick, or on a marked rink.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	skate	skate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
15	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	nmod	_	_
22	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	cm	cm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
30	rink	rink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | Ice on a pond |  |  |  |  | solid *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | may | Ice on a pond *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **check** | present · perfect | adults |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | Ice |  |  |  |  | 10 cm *obl:unmarked*; thick *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **mark** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «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:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing.lesson:2`.

**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): R8-pos-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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