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title: If you fall through ice, you turn back the way you came, where the i… — Pools, lakes and ice · tree and pragmatics
description: If you fall through ice, you turn back the way you came, where the ice held you, kick and slide onto the ice on your tummy, then roll away; lying down spreads your weight so the ice is less likely to break. Who acts: you, ice, lying. A sentence of the lesson «Pools, lakes and ice» of the everyday co
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# Pools, lakes and ice, sentence 18

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If you fall through ice, you turn back the way you came, where the ice held you, kick and slide onto the ice on your tummy, then roll away; lying down spreads your weight so the ice is less likely to break.

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**Who acts:** you, ice, lying · **What happens:** fall, turn back, come, hold, kick, slide · **To what, where:** ice, way, you, weight

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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 (you, ice, lying), 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:18
# text = If you fall through ice, you turn back the way you came, where the ice held you, kick and slide onto the ice on your tummy, then roll away; lying down spreads your weight so the ice is less likely to break.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
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	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	kick	kick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	slide	slide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
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	23	obl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	roll	roll	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
33	away	away	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	csubj	_	_
36	down	down	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
37	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
38	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=45:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
44	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	45	advmod	_	_
45	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:conj
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  | ice |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through ice=Location |
| 2 | **turn back** | present | you | the way |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | you | the way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 4 | **hold** | past | the ice | you |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 5 | **kick** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **slide** | present |  |  |  | the ice |  | on your tummy | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme onto ice=Source on tummy=Trajectory |
| 7 | **roll away** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **lie down** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **spread** | present | lying | your weight |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location weight=Theme |
| 10 | **is** | present | the ice |  |  |  |  | less, likely *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **break** | to-infinitive | the ice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP 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 ×3. **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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