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title: Early-winter and late-winter ice can be thin, and falling through it… — Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing · tree and pragmatics
description: Early-winter and late-winter ice can be thin, and falling through it is life-threatening within minutes. Who acts: winter ice, falling. A sentence of the lesson «Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing, sentence 21

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Early-winter and late-winter ice can be thin, and falling through it is life-threatening within minutes.

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**Who acts:** winter ice, falling · **What happens:** be, fall · **To what, where:** Ice

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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 (winter ice, falling), 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:21
# text = Early-winter and late-winter ice can be thin, and falling through it is life-threatening within minutes.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
5	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc
14	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	csubj	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
20	threatening	threaten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
21	within	within	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **is** | can | winter ice |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | gerund |  |  |  | Ice |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through it=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | falling |  |  |  | minute | threaten *property* | tree rules |

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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:21`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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