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title: Cold can stick: wet skin freezes to very cold metal or a lolly strai… — Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen met… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cold can stick: wet skin freezes to very cold metal or a lolly straight from the freezer, and it tears when you pull away, so let frozen things warm a little and never put your tongue on frozen metal. Who acts: Cold, wet skin, skin, you. A sentence of the lesson «Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves
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# Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medicines, fire and fireworks, sentence 1

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Cold can stick: wet skin freezes to very cold metal or a lolly straight from the freezer, and it tears when you pull away, so let frozen things warm a little and never put your tongue on frozen metal.

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**Who acts:** Cold, wet skin, skin, you, frozen things · **What happens:** stick, freeze, tear, pull away, let, warm · **To what, where:** freezer, little, tongue, frozen metal

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medicines, fire and fireworks» 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 (Cold, wet skin, skin, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:322-blenders-sleeves-frozen-metal-plugs-balconies-medicine-and-fireworks.lesson:1
# text = Cold can stick: wet skin freezes to very cold metal or a lolly straight from the freezer, and it tears when you pull away, so let frozen things warm a little and never put your tongue on frozen metal.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 322-blenders-sleeves-frozen-metal-plugs-balconies-medicine-and-fireworks.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stick	stick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	freezes	freeze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lolly	lolly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	freezer	freezer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	tears	tear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
30	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
31	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	warm	warm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	xcomp	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:conj
38	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	amod	_	_
42	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick** | can | Cold |  |  | the freezer |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **freeze** | present | wet skin |  |  |  |  | to cold metal or a lolly | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **tear** | present | skin |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pull away** | present | you |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **warm** | present | frozen things | a little |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **not** **put** | infinitive |  | your tongue |  | frozen metal |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme on metal=Destination |
| 9 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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 ×1, R7-rel-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.

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