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title: If someone falls through ice, you call for help and reach or throw s… — Pools, lakes and ice · tree and pragmatics
description: If someone falls through ice, you call for help and reach or throw something to them; you do not go out onto the ice. Who acts: someone, you. A sentence of the lesson «Pools, lakes and ice» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Pools, lakes and ice, sentence 16

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If someone falls through ice, you call for help and reach or throw something to them; you do not go out onto the ice.

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**Who acts:** someone, you · **What happens:** fall, call, reach, throw, not go out · **To what, where:** ice, something, bridges · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pools, lakes and ice» 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 (someone, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:045-pools-lakes-and-ice.lesson:16
# text = If someone falls through ice, you call for help and reach or throw something to them; you do not go out onto the ice.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 045-pools-lakes-and-ice.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): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **fall** | present | someone |  |  | ice |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through ice=Location |
| 2 | **call** | present | you |  |  |  |  | for help | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
| 3 | **reach** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **throw** | infinitive | you *not said here* | something | bridges *= bridge* |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent something=Theme to they=Destination |
| 5 | **not** **go out** | present · do-support | you |  |  | the ice |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «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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**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): no change. **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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